On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 01:46:55PM -0400, dutchman_mn at charter.net wrote:
> A coworker asked me a question and I could not give a definitive answer.  
> For a LD_LIBRARY_PATH entry, does Linux search sub-directories  
> recursively?  He is installing a database driver (Progress) on a CentOS  
> 5.3 and needs to point to some compat libraries.  However, they are not  
> in a single directory but in both a top-level directory such as  
> /usr/lib/progress but also in /usr/lib/progress/dirA and  
> /usr/lib/progress/dirB.  Would you have to point at all three  
> directories?

Yes, you have to list all directories.  Just like with $PATH.

Cheers,
florin

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