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Re:Never run ldd on unknown executables by thriftwy on Sunday July 23, 2023 @05:51PM (#36840232)
I believe I saw a simple shell script based on nm or binutils which could do a safe ldd on any executable, including executables for different platforms.

Update: Here seems to be one example: https://gist.github.com/jerome-pouiller/c403786c1394f53f44a3...

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Re:Never run ldd on unknown executables by yakubin on Sunday July 23, 2023 @06:07PM (#36840374)
It's readelf, but it will only list libs which are declared in the ELF of the executable. It won't list libraries loaded at startup with dlopen(3), unlike ldd. I'm also not sure, if this script will recurse, but I suspect not. ldd will print libraries loaded recursively.
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Re:Never run ldd on unknown executables by Joker_vD on Sunday July 23, 2023 @07:11PM (#36840935)
> It won't list libraries loaded at startup with dlopen(3)

Well, that'd require actually executing the startup code.

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Re:Never run ldd on unknown executables by nwellnhof on Sunday July 23, 2023 @06:03PM (#36840345)
This seems to be based on readelf.
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