Using busybox nslookup failed due to one of the libraries I had removed not being there? libnss_dns and libnss_files. ldd busybox doesn't report these libraries are used? Once I put those libraries back, the nslookup resolves.
That's because those shared libraries are not used at build time - or at process start time - so ldd cannot find them. They are actually dlopen()ed by glibc later in the life of the process, whenever you do an NSS request (which nslookup does). In the precise case of the libnss_*.so files, the way to know whether or not you need them is to look at /etc/nsswitch.conf : depending on how your NSS is set up, you may or may not need certain backends. In the general case, however, I don't think there's a simple way of finding out all the .so dependencies of a project whenever dlopen() is involved. You just have to know the project and what .so modules it may want to load dynamically. -- Laurent _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list busybox@busybox.net http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
