linking against shared libraries not in default path

[Anton Shterenlikht]

I compiled some numerical libraries under my home
directory, including static and shared libs. The
shared lib is

% ls ./src/libslatec.so.1
./src/libslatec.so.1
%

Now I'd like to test shared libraries, so I do 

% gfortran45 -o test01.x test01.o qc6a.o -L./src/ -lslatec
% ./test01.x 
/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libslatec.so.1" not found, required by "test01.x"
%

How can I tell the executable to look for a shared library
in a specific directory? I tried setting LIBRARY_PATH, but
it didn't help.

Perhaps I completely misunderstand how shared libraries work..

Please advise

many thanks
anton

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