Re: LIBRARY_PATH not used before /usr/lib anymore in gcc 4.2 and later?

[Frederik <freggy at gmail dot com>]

On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:46:45 +0100, Andrew Haley wrote:

> What does readelf -d test say?

$ echo $LIBRARY_PATH
/cvos/shared/apps/gcc/gcc-4.2.4//lib:/cvos/shared/apps/boost/
gcc-4.2/1.35.0/lib

$ echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH
/cvos/shared/apps/gcc/gcc-4.2.4//lib:/cvos/shared/apps/boost/
gcc-4.2/1.35.0/lib:/cvos/shared/apps/sge/6.1/lib/lx26-amd64

$ g++ -o test test.cpp -lboost_regex

$ readelf -d test

Dynamic section at offset 0xf778 contains 24 entries:
  Tag        Type                         Name/Value
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: 
[libboost_regex.so.2]
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libstdc++.so.6]
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libm.so.6]
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libgcc_s.so.1]
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libc.so.6]
 0x000000000000000c (INIT)               0x403d58
 0x000000000000000d (FINI)               0x40b2a0
 0x0000000000000004 (HASH)               0x400240
 0x0000000000000005 (STRTAB)             0x400f48
 0x0000000000000006 (SYMTAB)             0x400570
 0x000000000000000a (STRSZ)              10385 (bytes)
 0x000000000000000b (SYMENT)             24 (bytes)
 0x0000000000000015 (DEBUG)              0x0
 0x0000000000000003 (PLTGOT)             0x60f950
 0x0000000000000002 (PLTRELSZ)           1008 (bytes)
 0x0000000000000014 (PLTREL)             RELA
 0x0000000000000017 (JMPREL)             0x403968
 0x0000000000000007 (RELA)               0x403920
 0x0000000000000008 (RELASZ)             72 (bytes)
 0x0000000000000009 (RELAENT)            24 (bytes)
 0x000000006ffffffe (VERNEED)            0x4038b0
 0x000000006fffffff (VERNEEDNUM)         3
 0x000000006ffffff0 (VERSYM)             0x4037da
 0x0000000000000000 (NULL)               0x0

$ ls -l /cvos/shared/apps/boost/gcc-4.2/1.35.0/lib/*regex*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      27 Jun 11 12:22 /cvos/shared/apps/boost/
gcc-4.2/1.35.0/lib/libboost_regex-mt.so -> libboost_regex-mt.so.1.35.0
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5881209 Jun 11 12:22 /cvos/shared/apps/boost/
gcc-4.2/1.35.0/lib/libboost_regex-mt.so.1.35.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      24 Jun 11 12:21 /cvos/shared/apps/boost/
gcc-4.2/1.35.0/lib/libboost_regex.so -> libboost_regex.so.1.35.0
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5881164 Jun 11 12:21 /cvos/shared/apps/boost/
gcc-4.2/1.35.0/lib/libboost_regex.so.1.35.0

So here I would have expected it to link against libboost_regex.so.1.35.0 
instead of libboost_regex_so.2. What am I doing wrong here?

-- 
Frederik