On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 8:54 PM, Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 2010-05-10 at 07:45 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote: >> There was so much information flying past it took me a minute but I >> starting seeing some other libraries that it was not finding so after >> yumming those in it finally worked! > > On a related note, just wondering, and someone else will probably have > to answer this: Would using strace show an application trying to find > libraries that it could make use of, but doesn't actually need? > > I remember doing this sort of diagnosing back in my Amiga days, and it > was common for applications to try and see what was available for it, > and you'd see "not founds" for all sorts of optional extras. Which was > perfectly fine, so long as you weren't hoping to use one of those > optional extras. > I am assuming that the libraries you're talking about are probably the dynamically loaded ones so yes, you can see them in an strace too. If not found, they will return a ENOENT, again assuming that the app tries out a list of known plugins rather than simply loading everything from a predefined directory. Try out an strace of an app that uses plugins like pidgin, to see how it comes up. -- Siddhesh Poyarekar http://siddhesh.in -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
