Does a file reported as “not a dynamic executable” by 'ldd' depend on other libraries?

Question

Just making sure I got this right - I call

ldd /path/to/executable

and it returns "not a dynamic executable". This means that it doesn't depend on other libraries, correct? If so, does it mean that it can be transferred to another Ubuntu box without worrying about dependencies?

Answer 1

Correct, but there's something to take into account.

From the ldd manpage:

ldd does not work on a.out shared libraries.

ldd does not work with some extremely old a.out programs which were built before ldd support was added to the compiler releases. If you use ldd on one of these programs, the program will attempt to run with argc = 0 and the results will be unpredictable.