> From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@panix.com>
> Subject: Re: Do ldd and file lie about some executables?

> > > [I-See-Everything-Twice!jhawk] /afs/sipb/project/mbone/bin> ldd vic
> > > ldd: vic: not a dynamic executable
[...]
> > > [I-See-Everything-Twice!jhawk] /afs/sipb/project/mbone/bin> ./vic
> > >        -lXext.6 => /usr/X11/lib/libXext.so.6.0 (0x100fd000)

> Sorry, about that. I'm guilty of port-i186 specificism :-).
                                        ^^ err, i386

Actually, it's probably platform-indpendant. It seems that
one of the shareable libraries was linked incorrectly, and
rather than complain, ld produced a dynamically linked file
with a static header...

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John Hawkinson
jhawk@panix.com