From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 17 18:54:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.129.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A60FE37BE37 for ; Thu, 17 Aug 2000 18:51:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dt051n1f.san.rr.com (dt051n1f.san.rr.com [204.210.32.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A9AA6E4224 for ; Thu, 17 Aug 2000 17:46:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from slave (doug@slave [10.0.0.1]) by dt051n1f.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA49397; Thu, 17 Aug 2000 17:45:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 17:45:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton X-Sender: doug@dt051n1f.san.rr.com To: Carlos A M dos Santos Cc: FreeBSD questions list Subject: Re: ldd and BSDI binaries In-Reply-To: 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, 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. -- "Live free or die" - State motto of my ancestral homeland, New Hampshire Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message