Well, as a footnote, I went right ahead and patched the machine, then did make buildworld, installworld, make kernel, install kernel. . . . . and so far, everything is a-okay. :D
On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 03:17, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Mar 21), Mark said: > > Pardon my daftness, but how is a 'file' against, say, httpd, like this, > > > > file /usr/local/sbin/httpd > > /usr/local/sbin/httpd: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 > > (FreeBSD), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), not stripped > > > > going to tell me whether httpd was dynamically linked against > > OpenSSL, or statically? It just tells me httpd uses shared libraries. > > Or does it mean it ONLY uses shared libraries? > > You can also use the "ldd" command to list the specific shlibs linked > by a program, but you can usually assume that if it's dynamically > linked, it has dynamically linked all its libraries too. > Theoretically, a program could have linked directly to > /usr/lib/libssl.a, but most of the time they just use -lssl, which will > prefer shared libraries over static. -- ----- Rilindo Foster http://monzell.com AIM: rilindo _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
