Hi! When searching for "yocto ldd" Google brings up this old posting
On Mon Nov 11 05:25:08 PST 2013 Chris Hallinan challinan at gmail.com wrote: > On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 9:57 AM, Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc.com> wrote: > >> On 2013-11-09 06:42, Seth Bollinger wrote: >> >>> Hello All, >>> >>> I don't see that ldd is part of the cross toolchain build anywhere. Am I >>> missing something? >>> >> >> It's built with the eglibc recipe and is packaged separately. >> >> Right, and the command to locate it is $ oe-pkgdata-util find-path /usr/bin/ldd ldd: /usr/bin/ldd So the package name is indeed ldd. >Gosh, I though ldd, originally a hard-to-maintain script, was obsoleted a >long time ago. This command: > >$ readelf --dynamic <binary> > >provides the same information, and readelf can be found in every cross >toolchain. > >-Chris > I don't think that is correct. readelf only shows static information embedded into the binary. ldd does runtime lookup obeying e.g. the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable. It also has options -r and -u for actually doing the relocations and it will report errors if they don't succeed. So ldd is more useful than readelf for some use cases. Regards, Uwe Geuder Neuro Event Labs Oy Tampere, Finland uwe.gex...@neuroeventlabs.com (Bot check: fix one obvious typo) -- _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
