Tools to modify shared libraries

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 18:39, Joe Kelsey wrote:
> Has anyone ever come across general-purpose tools for modifying shared 
> libraries?  What I want to do is to edit the list of "needed" shared 
> libraries to correct the common mistakes that developers make in 
> creating shared objects with large lists of shared libraries.

GNU objcopy --- but it's a bit *too* general; you'd need to extract the
.dynamic section, edit it using some binary editing tool, and re-add it.

I doubt there are any tools of the kind you're looking for because the
details are too different between different systypes; even if someone
had developed one, it's just as likely to be for Linux or Solaris as for
*BSD, and as a result wouldn't be particularly useful.

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