[plug] when ldd wont tell you which libs are missing.

[Mike]

I tried this on the file Mike H sent me earlier:-

[erazmus at opera /u3/e/erazmus]$ strings ./wget |  grep lib      
/lib/ld-linux.so.2                                             
libc.so.6                                                      
__libc_start_main                                              


Rdgs

mike
                     




At 01:14 PM 28/9/2001 +0800, you wrote:
>On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Mike wrote:
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>> ldd: can't execute ./wget (No such file or directory)
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>Folks,
>I've seen this problem too recently.
>In the past, if a program refused to run with the arcane "no such file or
>directory" error, I knew it was a missing lib and ran 'ldd' to find it.
>But now sometimes ldd wont help, e.g.
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>/usr/bin/ldd: ./wavplay: No such file or directory
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>A) Why is ldd failing ?
>B) What other way is there to find which dynamic libs a program needs?
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>(I suspect that wavplay uses a very old libc, but it is ELF.)
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>-- 
>Mike Holland  <myk at golden.wattle.id.au>
>			--==--
>"Everybody is talking about the weather but nobody does anything
>about it."      -- Mark Twain
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