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ELF binaries store link-time dependencies in their headers, which can be parsed
by various tools. There is no machine-readable metadata about dependencies
loaded at build time via
.BR \%dlopen (3)
available by default. The ELF Dlopen Metadata specification aims to fill this
gap, by defining a common format.
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This tool allows parsing such a note, and printing out the result in various
formats.