LDD(1)                     OpenBSD Reference Manual                     LDD(1)

NAME
     ldd - list dynamic object dependencies

SYNOPSIS
     ldd [-f format] program ...

DESCRIPTION
     ldd displays all shared objects that are needed to run the given program.
     Contrary to nm(1), the list includes ``indirect'' dependencies that are
     the result of needed shared objects which themselves depend on yet other
     shared objects.  Zero, one or two -f options may be given. The argument
     is a format string passed to ld.so(1) and allows customization of ldd's
     output. See ld.so(1) for a list of recognised conversion characters.

     ldd also has some limited support for scanning shared libraries.  It dis-
     plays dependencies, but does not hunt them down recursively.

SEE ALSO
     ld(1), ld.so(1), nm(1)

HISTORY
     A ldd utility first appeared in SunOS 4.0.  It appeared in its current
     form in NetBSD 0.9A.

OpenBSD 3.0                    October 22, 1993                              1
