From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 18 18:14:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA22864 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 18:14:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from wall.polstra.com (rtrwan160.accessone.com [206.213.115.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA22835 for ; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 18:13:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAA24912; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 18:13:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id SAA28103; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 18:13:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <5505.911372844@verdi.nethelp.no> Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 18:13:13 -0800 (PST) Organization: Polstra & Co., Inc. From: John Polstra To: sthaug@nethelp.no Subject: Re: First Impression of 3.0-RELEASE Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, kaleb@ics.com Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 --- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." -- H. L. Mencken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message