lddlibc4 command not found
The ldd command is useful for checking broken links to shared library files. Some years ago I wrote a shell script to bubble through all files in the environment $PATH to look for broken links.
Recently an odd message I noticed is lddlibc4: command not found. I could not replicate the message on all systems.
Eventually I noticed the error appeared only in 32-bit systems.
In my use case the error message occured when a 32-bit version of ldd attempted to check a 64-bit file. Although being a 32-bit system, some 64-bit files are synced to all systems in the house network, such as in /usr/local/[s]bin.
For some odd reason, the 32-bit version of the ldd command, which actually is a script, is different from the 64-bit version. The 32-bit version contains the following snippet:
# Maybe extra code for non-ELF binaries.
file=$1
# Run the ldd stub.
lddlibc4 "$file"
# Test the result.
if test $? -lt 3; then
return 0;
fi
# In case of an error punt.
return 1;
Modern versions of glibc do not support any such lddlibc4 command yet the script has not been updated.
I added an architecture check in the shell script to ignore 64-bit files when running on a 32-bit system.
Posted: Category: Usability Tagged: General
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