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Old 05-19-2009
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I had to whip this up, and it seems useful enough to post here. Say you have been cleaning up your filesystem, and you removed a bunch of libraries, or you shuffled around some library directories, and aren't sure if ld.so.conf is correctly setup. You want to sweep through your file system looking for executables that cannot run because their libraries are now missing. Here's a really simple script to do just that:

Code:
find / -type f -exec file "{}" ";" | 
    awk '/dynamically linked/ { print $1 }' |
    sed 's/:$//' | 
    xargs ldd | 
    awk 'NF==1 {file=$1} /not found/ { print file, $1 }'

You might want to direct output to "tee" or perhaps just a file.

I only work with Linux these days. If you work with another OS and this script needs a tweak to work on it, please post a follow-up.
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REDO_PREBINDING(1)					      General Commands Manual						REDO_PREBINDING(1)

NAME
redo_prebinding - redo the prebinding of an executable or dynamic library SYNOPSIS
redo_prebinding [-c | -p | -d] [-i] [-z] [-r rootdir] [-e executable_path] [-seg_addr_table table_file_name] [-seg_addr_table_filename pathname] [-o output_file] input_file DESCRIPTION
Redo_prebinding is used to redo the prebinding of an executable or dynamic library when one of the dependent dynamic libraries changes. The input file, executable or dynamic library, must have initially been prebound for this program to redo the prebinding. Also all depended libraries must have their prebinding up to date. So when redoing the prebinding for libraries they must be done in dependency order. Also when building executables or dynamic libraries that are to be prebound (with the -prebind options to ld(1) or libtool(1)) the dependent libraries must have their prebinding up to date or the result will not be prebound. The options allow for different types of checking for use in shell scripts. Only one of -c, -p or -d can be used at a time. If redo_pre- binding redoes the prebinding on an input file it will run /usr/bin/objcunique if it exists on the result. OPTIONS
-c only check if the file needs to have it's prebinding redone and return status. A 0 exit means the file's prebinding is up to date, 1 means it needs to be redone and 2 means it could not be checked for reasons like a dependent library is missing (an error message is printed in these cases). -p check only for prebound files and return status. An exit status of 1 means the file is a Mach-O that could have been prebound and is not otherwise the exit status is 0. -d check only for dynamic shared library files and return status. An exit status of 0 means the file is a dynamic shared library, 1 means the file is not, 2 means there is some mix in the architectures. -i ignore non-prebound files (useful when running on all types of files). -z zero out the prebind check sum in the output if it has one. -e executable_path replace any dependent library's "@executable_path" prefix with the executable_path argument. -seg_addr_table table_file_name The -seg_addr_table option is used when the input a dynamic library and if specified the table entry for the install_name of the dynamic library is used for checking and the address to relocate the library to as it prefered address. -seg_addr_table_filename pathname Use pathname instead of the install name of the library for matching an entry in the segment address table. -r rootdir prepend the rootdir argument to all dependent libraries. -o output_file write the updated file into output_file rather than back into the input file. DIAGNOSTICS
With no -c, -p or -d an exit status of 0 means success and 2 means it could not be done for reasons like a dependent library is missing (an error message is printed in these cases). And exit of 3 is for the specific case when the dependent libraries are out of date with respect to each other. Apple Computer, Inc. September 10, 2001 REDO_PREBINDING(1)