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Date:      Thu, 25 Apr 2002 13:01:04 -0500
From:      Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
To:        Miguel Mendez <flynn@energyhq.homeip.net>
Cc:        Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: missing libraries, and how to find them.
Message-ID:  <15560.17504.878501.315464@guru.mired.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020425195116.A80026@energyhq.homeip.net>
References:  <20020425210202.A49377@k7.mavetju.org> <20020425140244.A77165@energyhq.homeip.net> <15560.15502.213147.169455@guru.mired.org> <20020425195116.A80026@energyhq.homeip.net>

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In <20020425195116.A80026@energyhq.homeip.net>, Miguel Mendez <flynn@energyhq.homeip.net> typed:
> On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 12:27:42PM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > As I stated just a minute ago, my version of that was committed a
> > while ago, and will hopefully be MFC's soon.
> 
> Good, I didn't know someone else had already submitted a patch before.
> 
> > But your script doesn't do the same thing. It only tells you what
> > libraries the libraries your command includes. It doesn't go to the
> > third third - or further - levels if required.
> 
> Well, not exactly. When you link program a with lib b, and lib b depends
> on lib c, ldd a shows both libs, so my script works as it will ldd all
> libs:

Yes, but when lib c depends on lib d, your script won't pick it up.
The patches to ldd will. They will recurse on down forever.

	<mike
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