Porting binutils to other OS

Alfeiks Kaanoken (MadTirra) madtirra@jarios.org
Thu Apr 23 21:12:00 GMT 2009


Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> "Alfeiks Kaanoken (MadTirra)" <madtirra@jarios.org> writes:
>
>   
>> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. ldd libc.so
>>   statically linked
>> But it has dynamic section.
>>     
>
> ldd is just a shell script which runs the dynamic linker.  It is not a
> reliable way to examine the contents of an ELF shared library or
> executable.  Use readelf.
>   
yep, I will not use ldd script to look up elf binaries and objects from 
now, - I'm making a sense on this in linux. thanks.
>
>   
>> I'm confused a little bit, because our parser of the ELF binary
>> (mostly built from existing source code) doesn't find linux-vdso.so.1
>> - is it ok ?
>>     
>
> Yes.  linux-vdso.so.1 is introduced by the GNU/Linux specific dynamic
> linker.
>
> Ian
>   



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