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.\" Copyright 2000 Ben Collins (bcollins@debian.org)
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.TH LDD 1 "30 October 2000"
.SH NAME
ldd \- print shared library dependencies
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B ldd
.RB [OPTION]...
FILE...
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B ldd
prints the shared libraries required by each program or shared library
specified on the command line.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B \-\-version
Print the version number of
.BR ldd .
.TP
.B \-v\ \-\-verbose
Print all information, including e.g. symbol versioning information.
.TP
.B \-d\ \-\-data\-relocs
Perform relocations and report any missing objects (ELF only).
.TP
.B \-r\ \-\-function\-relocs
Perform relocations for both data objects and functions, and
report any missing objects or functions (ELF only).
.TP
.B \-u\ \-\-unused
Print unused direct dependencies.
.TP
.B \-\-help
Usage information.
.SH BUGS
.B ldd
does not work on a.out shared libraries.
.PP
.B ldd
does not work with some extremely old a.out programs which were
built before
.B ldd
support was added to the compiler releases.
If you use
.B ldd
on one of these programs, the program will attempt to run with argc = 0 and
the results will be unpredictable.
.SH AUTHOR
Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR ldconfig (8),
.BR ld.so (8).