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diff --git a/development/libtree/README b/development/libtree/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..67ddeddcdf --- /dev/null +++ b/development/libtree/README @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +libtree prints the shared libraries required by each program or shared +library on the command line as a tree. By default certain common system +libraries are hidden to prune the tree. + +Unlike "ldd", libtree only parses the binary and does not use dynamic +loader to load them to memory. Therefore, it is a safer approach to +analyse suspicious binaries. + +A static build is recommended by the upstream. One can build the tool +statically by passing STATIC=yes: + +# STATIC=yes sh libtree.SlackBuild + +The patch included in this package is already upstream, but hasn't +ended up in a release yet. It's mainly targeted for the future +15.1 release and the "current". |