Re: probably an old question about overriding hardcoded library search paths

[Marc Glisse <marc dot glisse at inria dot fr>]

On Sun, 11 Nov 2012, Charles Smith wrote:

> How can I force a private copy of sqlite3 to be linked to my
> application?

You can always pass /path/to/libA.a instead of -L/path/to -lA.

> My ubuntu 10.04 system has sqlite3 in /usr/local/lib and /usr/lib.
> I want to link my application with a private version of sqlite3.
> Using -L and -l doesn't work because the additional directory is
> "appended" to the search path.

No. It might give priority to dynamic libraries over static ones though.
See -Bstatic in the documentation of the linker.

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Marc Glisse