Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 13:35:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Carlos A M dos Santos <casantos@cpmet.ufpel.tche.br> To: FreeBSD questions list <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: ldd and BSDI binaries Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008171253140.82058-100000@gate.cpmet.ufpel.tche.br> In-Reply-To: <20000817144134.A295@draenor.org>
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On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Marc Silver wrote: > file /bin/sh > /bin/sh: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD), > statically linked, stripped > > This means that the file is staticly compiled and doesn't need to make > reference to any libraries. It therefore doesn't require those > libraries at run time, as opposed to dynamically compiled programs which > do. This sounds strange to me. File reports that communicator-bsdi is "BSD/OS i386 compact demand paged executable". AFAIK, "demand paged" != "staticly linked". Also, ldd reports "not a dynamic executable" for anything it can't recognize as an executable binary: % ldd /tmp ldd: /tmp: not a dynamic executable -- Carlos A. M. dos Santos Federal University of Pelotas Meteorological Research Center Av. Ildefonso Simoes Lopes 2791 Pelotas, RS, Brasil, CEP 96060-290 WWW: http://www.cpmet.ufpel.tche.br RENPAC (X.25): 153231641 Phone: +55 53 277-6767 FAX: +55 53 277-6722 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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