Doug, > This is a partial update issue, one way or another. Instead of using ldd, which > is recursive, check some of those binaries with lddtree from the pax-utils > package. It'll reveal where the actual problems are. If you want to check in a > script, you need to be using something like objdump or readelf that will show > you just what the binary is linked to, not everything in the entire tree. thanks. i'll try to remember `lddtree`. cheers, Greg