Identifying a.out files that use shared libraries

Use the dump(CP) command to look at the section headers for the file:

dump -hv a.out

If the file has a .lib section, a shared library is needed. If the a.out does not have a .lib section, it does not use shared libraries.

To display the shared libraries used by a.out, use the -L option as shown in the following example:

dump -L a.out