what means the dropbear dependency on glibc-devel?
Rob Landley
rob at landley.net
Fri Feb 13 06:36:59 WST 2009
On Thursday 12 February 2009 07:12:53 Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> (here's hoping this isn't a really dumb question.)
>
> i want to cross-compile dropbear independently and put it on an
> embedded linux system, so i checked the dropbear install on my fedora
> system for its dependencies:
Red Hat's package manager dependencies and what you need to build a package
from source have a coincidental relationship at best.
> most of that looks fine -- the embedded system already has libc,
> libcrypt and libz installed. but what about libutil? a quick check
> shows that that comes from the glibc-devel package for fedora.
Your C library actually provides several different libraries. Checking what
uClibc installs, there's libc, libdl, libm, libnsl, libpthread, libresolv,
librt, libutil, and of course ld-uClibc.so.0 (the dynamic linker).
The man pages for the functions should tell you which library each function is
in, and thus when you need to add each -lblah to your build.
> what exactly is required from glibc-devel's libutil.so -- at least
> on a fedora system -- for dropbear installation? so i know if i have
> to cross-compile and install a bit more than what's already there.
According to readelf -a libutil-0.9.30.so, it defines the following
interesting-looking functions:
logwtmp, openpty, login_tty, login, forkpty, and logout.
So yeah, I can see dropbear needing that.
Rob
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