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I compiled my application successfully, but now when I try to run it, it says it requires libOgreMain.so.11 to run, which is correct, but the lib is already in /usr/local/lib. How can I make sure the programs looks there? Is there something for libs equivilant to the $PATH env variable for binaries? If I were lazy i could copy the required libs into the run dir, but what is the proper way of going about this problem?
Does ubuntu handle it differently somehow? I can't imagine my system would function at all if /usr/lib and /usr/local/lib were supposed to be in there, but this is the only app that currently has this problem.
Absolutely nothing. Typically, the dynamic linker will look in /lib and /usr/lib without having to be told anything. Other common locations for libraries are normally added to /etc/ld.so.conf. LD_LIBRARY_PATH is typically used for ad hoc cases like installing a library in your home directory. It's not supposed to have a default value.
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