probably an old question about overriding hardcoded library search paths

[Jonathan Wakely]

On 11 November 2012 15:12, Charles Smith wrote:
> Thank you for your response.  When the -L option is specified, where does the new directory go, if not on the end of the list?

There are two lists, the user-specified directories and the built-in
ones such as /usr/lib. If you use -L it adds a directory to the end of
the first list, but that still comes before the built-in ones.