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lines changed Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change @@ -1388,6 +1388,9 @@ On Linux, :func:`~ctypes.util.find_library` tries to run external programs
13881388(``/sbin/ldconfig ``, ``gcc ``, ``objdump `` and ``ld ``) to find the library file.
13891389It returns the filename of the library file.
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1391+ Note that if the output of these programs does not correspond to the dynamic
1392+ linker used by Python, the result of this function may be misleading.
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13911394.. versionchanged :: 3.6
13921395 On Linux, the value of the environment variable ``LD_LIBRARY_PATH `` is used
13931396 when searching for libraries, if a library cannot be found by any other means.
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21332136 The exact functionality is system dependent.
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2138+ See :ref: `ctypes-finding-shared-libraries ` for complete documentation.
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21362141.. function :: find_msvcrt()
21372142 :module: ctypes.util
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