The attribute of shared library list

[sr71]

Folks,

We used chatr to list the dependency of libwireshark.sl:
...
static /usr/local/lib/libroken.sl
dynamic /usr/local/lib/libcrypto.sl
static /usr/local/lib/libsmi.sl.2
dynamic /usr/lib/libm.2
...

I don't understand why libroken.sl is linked as "static"??

Thanks
Rick

[Dennis Handly]

Static means you linked it as /usr/local/lib/libroken.sl.
Dynamic means you linked it as: -L/usr/local/lib -lcrypto -lm.

You can change these with "chatr -l" or "chatr +l"

[ranganath ramachandra]

These indicate where the library will be picked up from at runtime -
"static" means that there is no search at runtime, only the specified (recorded) path will be used to look for the library.
"dynamic" means that the library will be searched for in all the applicable paths (from embedded path, SHLIB_PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH) and finally in the specified (recorded) path.

[sr71]

Thanks for Dennis and ranganath's help. It's fixed now.

[sr71]

ok