On Sat, 2 Jun 2001, Space Case wrote:

> Does anyone have/know of a tool that can check the library dependencies of
> executables, and flag those whose libraries are missing?
>
> Reason is, I have cleaned out the excess minor versions of the shared libs,
> but some of them have several excess major versions, and I'd like to get
> rid of those, too.

Hope you know that you have to keep the old ELF minors, once mac68k
switches to ELF...

> Example:
>   libcurses.so.2.5  <- wanna go away
>   libcurses.so.3.5  <- gone
>   libcurses.so.3.6  <- gone
>   libcurses.so.3.7  <- wanna go away
>   libcurses.so.4.0  <- gone
>   libcurses.so.4.1  <- gone
>   libcurses.so.4.2  <- keeper
> What depends on 2.5 or 3.7?

How about...?

    for e in /usr/*/bin/*
      do
	ldd $e 2> /dev/null |
	egrep -q "libcurses\.so\.((2\.5)|(3\.7))" &&
	echo $e
      done


Frederick