How to specify non-default shared-library path in GCC Linux? Getting “error while loading shared libraries” when running

Question

There is a laptop on which I have no root privilege.

onto the machine I have a library installed using configure --prefix=$HOME/.usr .

after that,

Answer 1

Should it be LIBRARY_PATH instead of LD_LIBRARY_PATH. gcc checks for LIBRARY_PATH which can be seen with -v option