ldd (fwd)

[Ulrich Drepper]

hjl@valinux.com (H.J. Lu) writes:

> HJ here is a buglet that I think is in glibc.  When you try to run ldd
> on a statically linked program it outputs: " not a dynamic executable"
> to stdout. I would argue that this should go to stderr (it messes up a
> program that I am writing.) I can't seem to find the source for ldd
> and that is why I am not sending you a patch.

It's done like this forever and we cannot change it because other
scripts and programs depend on this behaviour.

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