My new best friend: strace

[Joachim Backes]

On 05/10/2010 05:24 PM, Tim wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-05-10 at 07:45 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote:
>> There was so much information flying past it took me a minute but I
>> starting seeing some other libraries that it was not finding so after
>> yumming those in it finally worked!
>
> On a related note, just wondering, and someone else will probably have
> to answer this:  Would using strace show an application trying to find
> libraries that it could make use of, but doesn't actually need?

Hi,

use the ldd command!

>
> I remember doing this sort of diagnosing back in my Amiga days, and it
> was common for applications to try and see what was available for it,
> and you'd see "not founds" for all sorts of optional extras.  Which was
> perfectly fine, so long as you weren't hoping to use one of those
> optional extras.
>
>


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Joachim Backes <joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de>

http://www.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~backes

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