[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > This is damn confusing. How do you tell? How do you know?
>
> You can tell what libraries an application is linked against using the
> command:
>
> ldd <application>
>
> Because of all the "behind the curtain" work to get Netscape even resembling
> stable, you'll find that /usr/bin/netscape and
> /usr/bin/netscape-communicator aren't even the real executables. The real
> one hides in /usr/lib/netscape/netscape-communicator.
>
> Here's the output of "ldd /usr/lib/netscape/netscape-communicator" from the
> Netscape shipped with 6.1:
>
> /lib/libNoVersion.so.1 => /lib/libNoVersion.so.1 (0x40000000)
> libBrokenLocale.so.1 => /lib/libBrokenLocale.so.1 (0x40009000)
> libXt.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 (0x4000b000)
> libSM.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x4005b000)
> libICE.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x40064000)
> libXmu.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6 (0x4007b000)
> libXpm.so.4 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4 (0x4008e000)
> libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x4009d000)
> libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x400aa000)
> libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x40159000)
> libstdc++.so.2.8 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.2.8 (0x4015c000)
> libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x4019d000)
> libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x401bb000)
> /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x80000000)
>
> You'll notice that this one is linked against glibc instead of libc 5.
> Guess it got magically "stable" in the move to 6.1?
>
Cool.. Still confused, but a little less.. I got the same results with
ldd.
Maybe this is part of this horrendous memory usage I now have..
The libc.so.6 file that runs when netscape runs is huge..
Damn, where's opera! I've tried opera under BeOS and it has potential..
So much so, I'm considering buying it.. I like BeOS a lot, but Linux is
still more
productive.. And consider 6-8 months ago, Linux was my toy OS and win
was the primary..
Nice how things move from the west!
Thanks for the info.. Maybe I will try the plugger libc..
Alan
