How to get the system library path on Unix (Linux, FreeBSD)
I need a more-or-less portable programmatic way for querying the the dynamic library path list. For Linux, I can concatenate the $LD_LIBRARY_PATH and the contents of /etc/ld.so.conf (processing the include directives as needed and possibly filtering by architecture), but that doesn't work e.g. on FreeBSD. Ultimately, I need a Python fun...