Unable to link to library version of my choice

[Marco Ricci]

Thanks to both you and Jonathan Wakely for responding.

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

Correct, but I also had some printf statements and so it was clear at run time as well.
 
> 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.

So I should use both -L option and -Wl option while compiling? 

~~marco