how to run ldd on non-installed .so ?

[John Reiser]

ltmain.sh (GNU libtool) 1.4 (1.920 2001/04/24 23:26:18)

How should I run ldd on a built, but non-installed, .so library?
What I'm looking for is automatic setting of LD_LIBRARY_PATH
before invoking ldd.  I want the ldd output for its identification
of .soname and some path to each DT_NEEDED module, and the
absolute address at which each library is loaded.

"libtool --mode=execute ldd .libs/foo.so" eventually tries to
        eval 'exec $cmd "/"'
        exec ldd /
because both $progdir and $program are empty strings.

A similar fate awaits both
        libtool --mode=execute ldd .libs/foo.la
and
        libtool --mode=execute -dlopen .libs/foo.la ldd .libs/foo.so

Hints?

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John Reiser, address@hidden