From Richard Wilbur (Richard please update the tickets if you can, Savannah does not update tickets via email):

ubuntu@ubuntu:~/test$ ld --verbose | grep SEARCH | awk '{ gsub(/;/,
"\n"); print }' | awk -F '\"' '/SEARCH_DIR\(\"=?/ { gsub(/=/,"");
print $2 }' | xargs -0 readlink -m
/usr/i686-linux-gnu/lib32                                                                         
/usr/local/lib32
/lib32
/usr/lib32
/usr/local/lib/lib/i386-linux-gnu                                                                       
/lib
/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu
/usr/lib

Our ./configure script makes an effort to strip off standard directories from -L linker switches for a good reason, but fails at doing it for dirs like /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu.

This makes libraries installed in standard dirs take precedence over those installed in wherever is specified at configure time using --with-<package>-lib