Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From:	Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>
To:	gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject:	Re: [gentoo-dev] checdeps.rb for getting deps out of elf files
Date:	Wed, 28 Dec 2005 20:46:43
Message-Id:	`200512282143.46071.pauldv@gentoo.org`
In Reply to:	Re: [gentoo-dev] checdeps.rb for getting deps out of elf files by Mike Frysinger

1	On Wednesday 28 December 2005 21:13, Mike Frysinger wrote:
2	> On Wednesday 28 December 2005 11:11, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
3	> > Unfortunately scanelf also doesn't know (nor can it know)
4	>
5	> no utility will be able to passively calculate dependencies that happen via
6	> dlopen() or any similar dynamic library loading interface
7
8	What happens here is not so much dlopen as just not linking it in the proper
9	library. I don't know whether to blame libtool or apr-util itself. But it's
10	not clean to say the least. It happens more often though.
11
12	Paul
13
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15	Paul de Vrieze
16	Gentoo Developer
17	Mail: pauldv@g.o
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