@ Sadhiq I wrote that question in a hurry and so vaguely (dying laptop battery couldn't help) yet you have come up with a Brilliant article!
You not only solved my doubts, you also gave in a lot of information about it (including reference links). I liked the flow of information, just one read and all went in to my head. Amazing! Thanks a ton My scenario: In my case, I had installed Gmime as dependent application for an in-house developed binay package. The in-house package compiled smoothly (meaning it detected Gmime and its libraries) but when running its binaries it would fail. I tried creating symlinks of gmime source object in desired path but failed. After a few hiccups, I had to resort to ld.so.conf as a work around. I couldn't understand the logic behind it and therefore my question here. ----------------------------- @mubeen.. man page and google search are quite popular amongst Linux users. it doesnt need a special mention. It is better to not reply than to make such silly replies!
