On Tue, 28 Dec 2004, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:

> Should we use objdump (or other tool depending on platform) to output
> NEEDED instead of using ldd for generating REQUIRES?

Ideally, yes.  If such a tool can work on all platforms.  NEEDED shows only
direct library dependencies, which are precisely the ABI upon which the
package depends (regardless of underlying dependency libraries).

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-- Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org> <tv@pobox.com>