Re: User specified location of GD not carried into Makefiles

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Ethan A Merritt wrote:
> Anyhow, even if you force ./configure to use some particular version 
> when building gnuplot, at runtime it will still pick the libgd.so.2 
> provided by the system setup or by LD_LIBRARY_PATH.  

Not necessarily.  Shared libraries can be registered with an absolute 
path.  The don't have to be searched via LD_LIBRARY_PATH or related 
means, and the executable can influence its own effective search path to 
some extend.  Viz. 'ld' options -R, -rpath etc.