Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 17:45:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org> To: Carlos A M dos Santos <casantos@cpmet.ufpel.tche.br> Cc: FreeBSD questions list <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: ldd and BSDI binaries Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008171744410.49286-100000@dt051n1f.san.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008171253140.82058-100000@gate.cpmet.ufpel.tche.br>
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On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Carlos A M dos Santos wrote:
> 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:
You failed to note what's missing from your 'file' output. The
BSDi version is not ELF, therefore our ldd won't work with it.
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