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Re: Lib Tools


On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Bruce M Beach wrote:

>      I made and installed glibc without too many problems.
>      Currently I am building a new drive from scratch where
>      glibc will be the main gcc library because I read somewhere
>      that if you did this everyone will like you. Currently I am
>      able to boot the drive and I have gcc installed. (I think).
>      What I could use are tools in general for examining libraries,
>      in particular the contents of a library, if such a thing exists. 

man nm

>      Also does anybody knows where I can get source for ldd 
>      (other than red hat rpm's). (Mine is ancient).

ldd is installed as part of the glibc package.  For dealing with
libc5 programs you'll want ld.so 1.9.9.  You should be able to
get source for this from any Linux site, e.g.

ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux

Allin Cottrell.


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