Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 22:46:46 -0500 From: Rilindo Foster <webmaster@monzell.com> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Do I really need to rebuilding *everything* Message-ID: <1080013606.662.3.camel@osaka> In-Reply-To: <20040321081717.GA26638@dan.emsphone.com> References: <1079841282.664.10.camel@osaka> <20040321040035.GC2097@dan.emsphone.com> <200403210638.I2L6CT0D027199@asarian-host.net> <20040321065555.GE2097@dan.emsphone.com> <200403210708.I2L78Y8J027993@asarian-host.net> <20040321081717.GA26638@dan.emsphone.com>
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Well, as a footnote, I went right ahead and patched the machine, then did make buildworld, installworld, make kernel, install kernel. . . . . and so far, everything is a-okay. :D On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 03:17, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Mar 21), Mark said: > > Pardon my daftness, but how is a 'file' against, say, httpd, like this, > > > > file /usr/local/sbin/httpd > > /usr/local/sbin/httpd: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), not stripped > > > > going to tell me whether httpd was dynamically linked against > > OpenSSL, or statically? It just tells me httpd uses shared libraries. > > Or does it mean it ONLY uses shared libraries? > > You can also use the "ldd" command to list the specific shlibs linked > by a program, but you can usually assume that if it's dynamically > linked, it has dynamically linked all its libraries too. > Theoretically, a program could have linked directly to > /usr/lib/libssl.a, but most of the time they just use -lssl, which will > prefer shared libraries over static. -- ----- Rilindo Foster http://monzell.com AIM: rilindo
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