Manual Pages  — LDCONFIG

The hints file is maintained by ldconfig. The directories list to be stored in the hints file is supplied on the command line.

Alternatively to the directories list on the command line, files may be specified; these are expected to contain directories to scan for shared libraries. Each directory's pathname must start on a new line. Blank lines and lines starting with the comment character ‘amp;#’ are ignored.

For security reasons, directories which are world or group-writable or which are not owned by root produce warning messages and are skipped, unless the -i option is present.

The LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable can be used to specify additional shared library search directories. LD_LIBRARY_PATH is a 'amp;:' separated list of directory paths which are searched by the dynamic linker when it needs to load a shared library. It can be viewed as the run-time equivalent of the -L switch of ld(1).

The following options are recognized by ldconfig:

-32
	Generate the hints for 32-bit ABI shared libraries on 64-bit systems that support running 32-bit binaries.
-elf
	Ignored for backwards compatibility.
-B
	Force writing big-endian binary data to the hints file. The default is to create hints files in the native byte-order of the host. Reading of and merging into hints files preserves the endianness of the existing hints file.
-R
	Appends pathnames on the command line to the directory list from the hints file. This is the default action when no options are given.
-f hints_file
	Read and/or update the specified hints file, instead of the standard file. This option is provided primarily for testing.
-i
	Run in insecure mode. The security checks will not be performed.
-m
	Instead of replacing the list of the directories to search with the directories specified on the command line, merge existing list with the specified directories, and write the result to the hints file.
-r
	List the current list of the directories from the hints file on the standard output. The hints file is not modified. Scan and print all libraries found on the directories list.

The historic options -elf, -s, and -v are accepted but ignored.