From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 17 6:33: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gate.cpmet.ufpel.tche.br (gate.cpmet.ufpel.tche.br [200.248.148.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBA3937B625 for ; Thu, 17 Aug 2000 06:33:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (casantos@localhost) by gate.cpmet.ufpel.tche.br (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA82337 for ; Thu, 17 Aug 2000 13:35:25 GMT (envelope-from casantos@cpmet.ufpel.tche.br) X-Authentication-Warning: gate.cpmet.ufpel.tche.br: casantos owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 13:35:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Carlos A M dos Santos To: FreeBSD questions list Subject: Re: ldd and BSDI binaries In-Reply-To: <20000817144134.A295@draenor.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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