On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 10:01:19PM +0200, Marc Blumentritt wrote: > AFAIK you can compile binaries either static, which would include > all needed libs into the binary,
Yes, as long as all required libraries are available as static libs. > or you compile with shared libs, which are pulled in at runtime. Right. > Could you explain why, why there are static libs? Are they needed > as build time dependencies, when you compile static bins? Correct. You can use ldd binary (e.g. ldd /usr/bin/mplayer) to verify which dynamic libraries are needed for a binary. Note that one library may depend on other libraries, the default output of ldd is the aggregate of all dependencies - ie. what is needed to execute it, rather than what it was built against. //Peter -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
