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On Sun, Jul 04, 2010 at 07:26:48PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>There's no "eventually" to it.  It is a bug if ldd isn't reporting
>missing dlls.

The problem in this case is a missing nested dll.  ldd doesn't yet
have a mechanism to detect when a dll referenced by another dll is
missing.  I'm pondering the best way to deal with that now.

cgf

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