Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 18:13:13 -0800 (PST) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: sthaug@nethelp.no Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, kaleb@ics.com Subject: Re: First Impression of 3.0-RELEASE Message-ID: <XFMail.981118181313.jdp@polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <5505.911372844@verdi.nethelp.no>
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On 18-Nov-98 sthaug@nethelp.no wrote:
>> > Two, ldd works on ELF programs but not on ELF libraries? This is just
>> > strange. I suppose I can always ship my libraries over to an SVR4 or
>> > Linux system in order to {ldd,dump,odump} them.
>>
>> Are you sure it really worked on libraries under SVR4? Every
>> implementation of ldd that I've ever seen just set a magic environment
>> variable for the dynamic linker and then "executed" the program.
>> I.e., I've never seen one that would work for shared libraries
>> standing alone.
>
> Solaris 2.5.1:
>
> % ldd libkrb.so
> libdl.so.1 => /usr/lib/libdl.so.1
> libc.so.1 => /usr/lib/libc.so.1
>
OK, I'm a believer now. :-)
It might be a good idea to file a P/R on this. That way I'll get weekly
nagging reminders to fix it.
John
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John Polstra jdp@polstra.com
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