Subject: Re: Purging old library versions
To: Simon Burge <simonb@telstra.com.au>
From: Dave Sainty <dave@dtsp.co.nz>
List: current-users
Date: 08/24/1998 00:47:17
Simon Burge writes:
>
> On Sat, 22 Aug 1998 17:23:31 -0700 (PDT) Paul Goyette wrote:
>
> > Having followed -current for a long time now, I notice that I've got a
> > few old versions of shared object libraries in /usr/lib. Is there some
> > relatively easy way to find out which executables I might still have
> > lying around linked to these older versions of libedit, libkvm (likely
> > not very many here), and libstdc++? I know I could just find all the
> > executables and try to run them, but there must be an easier way to
> > check which libraries they're linked against?
>
> I got this ages ago (1994!) and haven't used it in quite a while, so I
> don't even know if it works on -current (or anything recent). A quick
> glance doesn't show any obvious problems. Have a look and let us know
> how you go.
I always meant to write one of these, but never got around to it. :)
Here it is again with some fixes for NetBSD-current, and an extra
feature to list all files on the system that require missing shared
libraries. And a few panics in case the output of these utilities
changes again. :)
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#!/usr/bin/perl
# hey emacs, this is a -*-perl-*- script!
# A little script to build a reference listing for dynamic libraries.
# This should help you to get rid of unused ones and find the binaries
# you need to update before removing old lib revisions.
# Martin Husemann, martin@euterpe.owl.de, 25-Apr-1994
#
# D.Sainty@dtsp.co.nz - Updated for NetBSD-current as at: 24/8/1998
# Synopsis:
# libref [-a]
#
# Description:
# Lists usage count for all known shared libraries
#
# Options:
# -a gives a complete reference table
undef $ENV{"LD_LIBRARY_PATH"};
$doRef = $ARGV[0] eq "-a"; # yes, it may use getopt...
# First ask ldconfig for a list of all shared libs and initialize the
# reference and statistics table
open(LIBS, "ldconfig -r |") || die("could not run ldconfig: $!\n");
while (<LIBS>) {
chop;
next if /^(\S*ld.so.hints:|\s*search directories:.*)$/;
m/^.*=> (\S+)(|\s.*)$/ || die("parsing $_");
$reference{$1} = "";
$count{$1} = 0;
}
close(LIBS);
# now lookup every dynamically linked executable on the whole disk
open(FILES, "find / -type f -print |") || die("could not run find: $!\n");
while (defined($file = <FILES>)) {
chop $file;
if ( -x $file ) {
$whatis=`file $file`;
if ($whatis =~ /dynamically linked/) {
open(LIBS, "ldd $file |") || die("could not run ldd: $!\n");
@libs = <LIBS>;
close(LIBS);
shift(@libs);
foreach (@libs) {
chop;
m/^.*=> (\S.+\S)\s+\(0x[0-9a-f]+\)\s*$/ || die("parsing $_ in file $file");
if ($1 eq "not found") {
push(@unresolvables, $file);
last;
}
die("lib? $_ in file $file") if !defined $count{$1};
$count{$1}++;
$reference{$1} .= " $file" if ($doRef);
}
}
}
}
close(FILES);
# sort statistics
sub ByUsage {
$count{$a} <=> $count{$b};
}
@sorted = sort ByUsage keys(%count);
# and finaly report statistics...
print "Shared library usage counts\n\n" if ($doRef);
foreach (@sorted) {
printf "%8d %s\n", $count{$_}, $_;
}
# and the cross reference
if ($doRef) {
print "\n\nShared library cross reference\n\n";
foreach $lib (sort(keys(%reference))) {
print "$lib:$reference{$lib}\n";
}
}
print "\n\nFiles with unresolved libraries:\n\n";
foreach $file (@unresolvables) {
print "$file\n";
}
exit 0;