Unable to link to library version of my choice

[Marc Glisse]

On Tue, 28 Feb 2012, Marco Ricci wrote:

> I built gtk locally on my computer and the build went fine, but when I 
> wrote a small test program and tried to link it to the library that I 
> built, it compiled fine, but behind the scenes, it actually linked to 
> the file in /usr/lib.

I guess you checked that with ldd on your program, not strace on the 
build?

> I've tried everything, -L option, compiling with the full path of the library file and even googling for the answer. I see that others have had the same problem but there are no satisfactory responses. I tried -nostdlib option with gcc but then it started complaining about other libraries.

There are 2 operations called linking. One is when you create the binary 
file. Another one is when you run it. -L tells where to look for libraries 
during the first one. -rpath (it is a linker option, so you want -Wl, in 
front) tells where to look during the second one.

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Marc Glisse