1.Dd October 22, 1993
2.Dt LDD 1
3.Os FreeBSD
4.Sh NAME
5.Nm ldd
6.Nd list dynamic object dependencies
7.Sh SYNOPSIS
8.Nm ldd
9.Op Fl v
10.Op Fl f Ar format
11.Ar program ...
12.Sh DESCRIPTION
13.Nm ldd
14displays all shared objects that are needed to run the given program.
15Contrary to nm(1), the list includes
16.Dq indirect
17depedencies that are the result of needed shared objects which themselves
18depend on yet other shared objects.
19.Pp
20Zero, one or two
21.Fl f
22options may be given. The argument is a format string passed to
23.Xr rtld 1
24and allows customization of
25.Nm ldd Ns 's
26output. See
27.Xr rtld 1
28for a list of recognised conversion characters.
29.Pp
30The
31.Fl v
32option displays an verbose listing of the dynamic linking headers
33encoded in the executable. See the source code and include
34files for the definitive meaning of all the fields.
35.Sh SEE ALSO
36.Xr ld 1 ,
37.Xr ld.so 1 ,
38.Xr nm 1
39.Sh HISTORY
40A
41.Nm ldd
42utility first appeared in SunOS 4.0, it appeared in its current form
43in FreeBSD 1.1.
44.Pp
45The
46.Fl v
47support is based on code written by John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
2.Dt LDD 1
3.Os FreeBSD
4.Sh NAME
5.Nm ldd
6.Nd list dynamic object dependencies
7.Sh SYNOPSIS
8.Nm ldd
9.Op Fl v
10.Op Fl f Ar format
11.Ar program ...
12.Sh DESCRIPTION
13.Nm ldd
14displays all shared objects that are needed to run the given program.
15Contrary to nm(1), the list includes
16.Dq indirect
17depedencies that are the result of needed shared objects which themselves
18depend on yet other shared objects.
19.Pp
20Zero, one or two
21.Fl f
22options may be given. The argument is a format string passed to
23.Xr rtld 1
24and allows customization of
25.Nm ldd Ns 's
26output. See
27.Xr rtld 1
28for a list of recognised conversion characters.
29.Pp
30The
31.Fl v
32option displays an verbose listing of the dynamic linking headers
33encoded in the executable. See the source code and include
34files for the definitive meaning of all the fields.
35.Sh SEE ALSO
36.Xr ld 1 ,
37.Xr ld.so 1 ,
38.Xr nm 1
39.Sh HISTORY
40A
41.Nm ldd
42utility first appeared in SunOS 4.0, it appeared in its current form
43in FreeBSD 1.1.
44.Pp
45The
46.Fl v
47support is based on code written by John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>