Why LD_LIBRARY_PATH is badBy David Barr. Background This is one system administrator's point of view why LD_LIBRARY_PATH, as frequently used, is bad. This is written from a SunOS 4.x/5.x (and to some extent Linux) point of view, but this also applies to most other UNIXes. What LD_LIBRARY_PATH does LD_LIBRARY_PATH is an environment variable you set to give the run-time shared library loader (ld.so) an extra set of directori
