On Sunday, 6 April 2014 at 00:12:00 UTC, Harpo wrote:
Then in a runner script I have this.LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. ./main
This kind of thing is common in Linux, in fact, a lot of Linux software consists of a runner script that sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH and a separate binary file and its library .so files that is the actual application.
LD_LIBRARY_PATH tells it where to find the shared library files. Without it, the system only searches the global directories like /usr/lib.
