LIBRARY_PATH Ignored but -L Works in Development Environment Script?

[Adrien Guillon]

Hi everyone,

I am attempting to setup a development environment on my system, which
uses the latest gcc and new libraries for my projects.  I don't want
my programming environment to interfere with my actual production
system, and this approach has the advantage that I can easily try out
different combinations of libraries.  The environment will be entered
by executing a shell script that allows me to just use the new
libraries and binaries without much fuss.

Since I have installed other libraries into this environment, I need
to tell gcc where to find them.  I set the LIBRARY_PATH variable, but
it seems to be ignored.  When I compile a program depending on
libraries aside from those bundled with gcc, I get linker errors (with
LIBRARY_PATH set as shown below), if I pass -L everything is okay.  It
looks as if LIBRARY_PATH is getting ignored.

Here is the script I am running right now:

# Where the new compiler is located
DEVELOPMENT_ENV=/opt/development_env_2012_06

# Setup path
export PATH=$DEVELOPMENT_ENV/gcc-compiler/bin:$PATH

# Runtime access to libraries
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$DEVELOPMENT_ENV/gcc-compiler/lib64:$DEVELOPMENT_ENV/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

# LIBRARY PATHS
export LIBRARY_PATH="$DEVELOPMENT_ENV/gcc-compiler/lib64:$DEVELOPMENT_ENV/lib"

# INCLUDES
export CPATH=$DEVELOPMENT_ENV/usr/include

export CPPFLAGS="-L$DEVELOPMENT_ENV/lib -L$DEVELOPMENT_ENV/gcc-compiler/lib64"
export CFLAGS="-L$DEVELOPMENT_ENV/lib -L$DEVELOPMENT_ENV/gcc-compiler/lib64"