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Linkers

• Debug using =LD_DEBUG=help= to start getting help, and then actually run the binary.
  • Really interesting to actually look at this and see what's going on.
  • It's not possible to dynamically change the path that libraries are looked up in for a running process.
  • The linker is actually baked in; so changing it involves modifying the compiler (or potentially post-processing the binary?)

— Kunal