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The Dynamic Linker

The dynamic linker:

• examines shared library dependencies in executable file and
  
  
• loads shared libraries into memory (if they are not already);
  
  
• is itself a shared library which is part of every ELF executable using shared libraries: /lib/ld-linux.so
  
  
• applies a set of rules to find libraries referenced by the program.
  
  
• the rules specify a set of standard directories.

  (For example, many shared libraries reside in /lib and /usr/lib.)

The error message earlier occurred because our library is in the current directory, which is not part of standard list.

(C) 2006, Michael Kerrisk