Question about libbfd

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 12:57:36AM +0300, Filippos Papadopoulos wrote:
> 
> Hi.
> 
>   I am making a small application for the autopackage project
> (http://autopackage.org) that lists library dependencies of a Linux ELF
> binary/library recursively. The problem is that i use the command
> "objdump -p /usr/bin/foobar | grep NEEDED" to get the 'NEEDED' entries.
>   Since i 'call the shell' from C code to execute that command, i have
> problems with resources and execution speed. I believe that there must be
> a way to get the 'NEEDED' entries by using libbfd. Unfortunately i found
> poor documentation about libbfd (or at least this is my perception :)
>  I would be thankful if you provide me some info on how to get the
> 'NEEDED' entries using C and libbdf.

For something like this, I heartily recommend using libelf instead.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer