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My program is written in cpp and it uses a non standard library. I have compiled successfully by linking it to the library. But when i try to run the program. it give a error message like:
"error while loading shared libraries: ***.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"
and when i use ldd command, it shows cannot find the ***.so.

I guess i need to add the library directory to the runtime search path. But i do not have enough privillage to add the path to $LD_LIBRARY_PATH in the system. So any suggestion to deal with this problem??

Thank you very much for kind enlightment!!!!

Btw, I am using g++ 3.4.4 (Seems i can use -R/...../lib to set the path during compile/linking time in some old versions.) But new one cannot recognize it

Add a directory to your LD_LIBRARY_PATH. You don't need to affect my LD_LIBRARY_PATH to run your program. The syntax depends on your shell. With ksh or bash:

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}:/some/other/directory
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH

And you can put that in your .profile file so it happens whenever you logon.

Thank you very much. It works