ld.so library search paths

 The  shared libraries needed by the program are searched for in
       various places:

       o      (ELF only) Using the DT_RPATH dynamic section  attribute
              of  the  binary if present and DT_RUNPATH attribute does
              not exist.  Use of DT_RPATH is deprecated.  (-Wl, -rpath,$DIR)

       o      Using the environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH.   Except
              if  the executable is a set-user-ID/set-group-ID binary,
              in which case it is ignored.

       o      (ELF  only)  Using  the   DT_RUNPATH   dynamic   section
              attribute of the binary if present. (-Wl, -rpath, $DIR, --enable-new-dtags)

       o      From  the  cache  file /etc/ld.so.cache which contains a
              compiled list of candidate libraries previously found in
              the  augmented library path. If, however, the binary was
              linked with -z nodeflib linker option, libraries in  the
              default library paths are skipped.

Reference http://blog.lxgcc.net/?tag=dt_rpath