gnu ld searchpath

[Ramana Radhakrishnan]

> Is this the expected behavior for gnu ld ? And ld.so.conf file entries
> only affect runtime linker (ld-linux*.so) searchpaths ?

ld.so.conf has nothing to do with the static linker. It's only used by
the dynamic linker.

$>man ldconfig

alternatively on a GNU/Linux system, you can try using apropos ld.so
to find all related man pages .....

regards
Ramana

>
> Regards,
> Vinitha Vijayan