From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 22 19:46:57 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21DBB16A4CE for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 19:46:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from imf22aec.mail.bellsouth.net (imf22aec.mail.bellsouth.net [205.152.59.70]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A2B943D2D for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 19:46:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from webmaster@monzell.com) Received: from [172.16.255.97] ([68.209.112.180]) by imf22aec.mail.bellsouth.netESMTP <20040323034656.EAEW2496.imf22aec.mail.bellsouth.net@[172.16.255.97]>; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 22:46:56 -0500 From: Rilindo Foster To: Dan Nelson 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> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1080013606.662.3.camel@osaka> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 22:46:46 -0500 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Do I really need to rebuilding *everything* X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 03:46:57 -0000 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