[arch-dev-public] libarchive, pacman, and libtool-slaying

Jason Chu jason at archlinux.org
Tue Jun 19 19:52:14 EDT 2007


On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 07:28:18PM -0400, Travis Willard wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 18:21:53 -0400
> "Dan McGee" <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > 2. Where is this mysterious link to libarchive.so.1 coming from when
> > it isn't even present on my system anymore?
> 
> Did you check the output of ldd libalpm.so and ldd pacman differently?
> One may be linking against .1, the other against .2 - I've had
> wierdness like that happen to me on other apps before and since pacman
> links in alpm, if they're both depending on different versions both may
> show up in the output.
> 
> Essentially, what I mean is run ldd on each .so file in the output of
> $(ldd pacman) and see if it's pulled in as a dep of one of those.

You could use ldd like that or you could try readelf -d <file>.  It will
give you only the links needed by that file and not its dependencies
dependencies.  It's what namcap uses.

Jason
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