[Xastir] How is xastir linked?

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Sat, 23 Oct 2004, Rick Green wrote:

> I found the answer.  No recompile/link necessary.

No, you just found that it has some dynamic libraries linked in (possibly 
only libc). You can link some static libraries into an object and still 
have it be dynamic.

The answer involving ldd is the correct one.

> rtg at bruiser:~> file `which xastir`
> /usr/local/bin/xastir: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1
> (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), not stripped
>
> -- 
> Rick Green
>
> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little
> temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."
>                                  -Benjamin Franklin
>
> On Sat, 23 Oct 2004, Rick Green wrote:
>
>> I must admit, I'm not conversant enough to interpret the makefile, so I'll
>> ask here:  How is xastir linked - statically or dynamically?  The reason
>> I'm asking is that SuSE just released a fix for a security hole in
>> libtiff, and I'm wondering if simply restarting xastir will pick it up, or
>> if I need to go to te trouble of recompiling it?
>>
>>
>
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