Re: guile-2.0.11 installation on system with 2.0.5

[Neil Jerram]

On 2014-09-15 02:16, address@hidden wrote:
> Federico Beffa <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Neil Jerram <address@hidden> writes:
> >
> > > This is just a guess, but what happens if you do this:
> > >
> > > $ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib /usr/local/bin/guile
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >      Neil
> >
> > With this it works!
> >
> > I notice that there is an /etc/ld.so.cache file. Do I somehow need to 
> > update
> > it?
>
> Yes, you update it by running "ldconfig" as root.  This needs to be 
> done
> when installing libraries outside of your package manager, not only for
> Guile, but for essentially all packages containing libraries.

I agree that this will allow /usr/local/bin/guile to load 
/usr/local/lib/libguile*.

However, won't it also cause /usr/bin/guile (2.0.5) to load 
/usr/local/lib/libguile* (2.0.11) ?  If not, what is the mechanism that 
tells /usr/bin/guile (2.0.5) to load /usr/lib/libguile* (2.0.5) instead 
of /usr/local/lib/libguile* (2.0.11) ?

Thanks,
     Neil