Re: Glibc and shared libraries

[booleandomain <booleandomain at gmail dot com>]

Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Friday 10 July 2009 07:30:16 booleandomain wrote:
> > I'd like to install it in a directory called ${DIR}/tools. There is also
> > a symlink (/tools) that points to ${DIR}/tools.
> >
> > I did a configure with --prefix=/usr, make and make install
> > install_root=/tools. Everything went well, except one thing: if I do ldd
> > /tools/lib64/libnss_compat.so.2, I obtain something as libc.so.6 =>
> > /lib/libc.so.6. This is not good. I'd like to obtain something as
> > libc.so.6 => /tools/lib/libc.so.6.
>
> ldd is correct, i simply doesnt operate the way you expect.  please search the 
> glibc wiki for how to properly invoke the new ldso to find the new libraries 
> only.
> -mike

I found 
http://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Tips_and_Tricks/Loader_Tips_and_Tricks, 
but it didn't tell me anything new. Please let me know if you were 
speaking about a different page.