Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 13:57:06 +0200 From: Marco Molteni <molter@tin.it> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: missing libraries, and how to find them. Message-ID: <20020425115706.49788.qmail@cobweb.example.org> In-Reply-To: <20020425210202.A49377@k7.mavetju.org> References: <20020425210202.A49377@k7.mavetju.org>
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On Thu, 25 Apr 2002 21:02:02 +1000, Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org> wrote: [..] > them... At the end, it was gtkhtml which was holding the old > libfreetype.so.6, but it had cost me the whole evening to find out. > > Why didn't ldd tell me which lib it was which was failing? > With this idea in mind I've submitted PR bin/37448: [PATCH] ldd/rtld > support for more information of linked libraries. It patches ldd.c > and rtld.c to understand the -s option (that parameter is also used > under Solaris I've been told). With this option it does display the > name of the program/library ldd is displayed (so not only the first > occurance) and the libs being looked for: [..] I ran in similar problems more than once. I *love* this patch! Marco To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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