What is the default value of LD_LIBRARY_PATH?
If a shared object dependency does not contain a slash, then it is
searched for in the following order:
libraries
What is /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 and why can it be used to execute file?
Recently, I have learned a trick that if a file lacks executable permissions, we can run that file by using /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2.
Loading of shared libraries and RAM usage
I’m wondering about the way Linux manages shared libraries. (actually I’m talking about Maemo Fremantle, a Debian-based distro released in 2009 running on 256MB RAM).
Why are shared libraries executable?
Why have almost all the shared libraries in /usr/lib/ have the executable permission bit set? I don’t see any use case for executing them. Some do manage to hook-up some form of main function to print a short copyright and version note, but many don’t do even that and segfault upon execution.
where will the system search for dynamic libraries?
The dynamic linker of the GNU C Library and its derivative Embedded
GLIBC implement a rather complicated algorithm for searching for
shared libraries. The basic search order is:
How to change the paths to shared libraries (.so files) for a single terminal instance
I want to remove some of the paths the linker uses to find .so libraries for testing purposes.
Is there a way to determine what packages or libraries should be loaded to support an executable?
There is an executable I want to install on a computer that I can’t recompile that wasn’t built as a package, and I want to download the libraries it requires to run them.
Why does LD keep outputting “no version information available”
On every loading of a lib, I get the error: