Subject: Re: Do ldd and file lie about some executables?
To: Greg Earle <earle@isolar.Tujunga.CA.US>
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@panix.com>
List: current-users
Date: 01/20/1995 20:13:16
> From: Greg Earle <earle@isolar.Tujunga.CA.US>

> > [I-See-Everything-Twice!jhawk] /afs/sipb/project/mbone/bin> ldd vic
> > ldd: vic: not a dynamic executable
> >
> > However:
> >
> > [I-See-Everything-Twice!jhawk] /afs/sipb/project/mbone/bin> setenv \
> > LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS 1
> > [I-See-Everything-Twice!jhawk] /afs/sipb/project/mbone/bin> ./vic
> >        -lXext.6 => /usr/X11/lib/libXext.so.6.0 (0x100fd000)
[...]

> You didn't say what system this is on.
> 
> This doesn't happen to me; I'm running "vic" on a NetBSD/SPARC 1.0 system:

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

Anyway, Charles is looking at it, and he thinks he knows what the problem
is...

> Note that as of the 1.0 final release (i.e., not -current), you can't use the
> dynamically-linked version (i.e., that uses libg++.so.2.0) because it core
> dumps.

Hmm. I haven't noticed that, but no one seems to have multicast
any video that I noticed in the past couple days....

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John Hawkinson
jhawk@panix.com