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Yes. So is the (IMHO) best workaround of using lddtree (pax-utils) instead. Available on pretty much all distros, though probably not installed by default.

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objdump -x /path/to/bin | grep NEEDED

Doesn't tell you if/where the library is found on your system.

for i in $(objdump -p /path/to/bin | grep NEEDED | awk '{print $2}'); do ldconfig -p | awk -v var="$i" '$1==var{print $0}'; done

edit:

even simpler,

for i in $(objdump -p /path/to/bin | grep NEEDED | awk '{print $2}'); do ldconfig -p | grep $i; done

Cool, but I think I'll stick to lddtree ;)

(… it also recurses down on the dependencies, presumably you can extend your shell script to do that too but at some point why not just use the existing tools?)

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