[ewg] OFED-4.8, rdma-core, and library paths

[Jason Gunthorpe]

On Tue, Feb 07, 2017 at 11:19:59AM -0600, Steve Wise wrote:
> > 
> > Hm, possibly yes. ibverbs first checks the new location, if the
> > provider is not there then it will fall back to a naked dlopen which
> > could find providers in the system library path if there was a .driver
> > file for it.
> 
> Hmm, so it will load the provider libraries directly specifying the
> full path?  IE 'ldconfig -p' doesn't matter?

As the first try, yes. That is the usual way to locate
plugins. Typically you don't want the system linker searching plugin
directories.

Jason