Re: ldd will not check shared libraries for dependancies

[Markus Hennecke]

Antti Harri schrieb:
On Wed, 29 Aug 2007, Brian Bentley wrote:
# ldd /usr/bin/more
/usr/bin/more:
       Start    End      Type Open Ref GrpRef Name
       00000000 00000000 exe  1    0   0      /usr/bin/more
       00745000 20758000 rlib 0    1   0      /usr/lib/libcurses.so.10.0
       00951000 20985000 rlib 0    1   0      /usr/lib/libc.so.40.3
       068e7000 068e7000 rtld 0    1   0      /usr/libexec/ld.so
# ldd /usr/lib/libcurses.so.10.0
/usr/lib/libcurses.so.10.0:
/usr/lib/libcurses.so.10.0: Permission denied
/usr/lib/libcurses.so.10.0: exit status 1
# ldd /usr/local/lib/libjpeg.so.62.0
/usr/local/lib/libjpeg.so.62.0:
/usr/local/lib/libjpeg.so.62.0: Exec format error
/usr/local/lib/libjpeg.so.62.0: exit status 1

Works for me:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ldd /usr/lib/libcurses.so.10.0
/usr/lib/libcurses.so.10.0:
        Start    End      Type Open Ref GrpRef Name
        0f81c000 2f82f000 dlib 1    0   0      /usr/lib/libcurses.so.10.0
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ldd /usr/local/lib/libjpeg.so.62.0
/usr/local/lib/libjpeg.so.62.0:
        Start    End      Type Open Ref GrpRef Name
        09f2e000 29f34000 dlib 1    0   0 /usr/local/lib/libjpeg.so.62.0

PS. Also check out readelf(1).

You are doing this on current. 4.1 behaves like Brian described it. 
There is no manpage for readelf in 4.1.

Greetings
  Markus