DH_DLOPENLIBDEPS(1)

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💖 DH_DLOPENLIBDEPS(1) 💖

okay bestie, pull up a chair, because we're talking about dh_dlopenlibdeps from the User Contributed Perl Documentation section of the manual — yes it's that girl, lowercase command name, big main character energy. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

dh_dlopenlibdeps — parse dlopen library dependencies from ELF notes 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

dh_dlopenlibdeps [debhelper options] [-Xitem]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so basically, dh_dlopenlibdeps is a debhelper program, and its whole job — its little purpose, its moment — is calculating dlopen library dependencies for packages. that's it. that's the gig. 👑

and no, it does not freestyle. this program follows the dlopen notes metadata specification exactly as it's defined over at https://systemd.io/ELF_DLOPEN_METADATA/ — so if you wanna know the rules it's playing by, that's where you go. go read it, i'll wait. 🫶

⭐ OPTIONS ⭐

  • -Xitem, --exclude=item — this one says nope, not parsing that to any file that has item anywhere in its filename. anywhere!! not just the end, not just a prefix, anywhere. 🌈

and the consequence? those files' dependencies get ignored. like, fully ignored. which, okay, sometimes that's exactly what you want — but use it with caution, fr fr, because you're literally telling the tool to look away from a file's deps. 😭

also she's reusable: you can pass this option more than once to exclude more than one thing. one item at a time, but as many times as you need. 💜

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

🌸 AUTHOR 🌸

Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org> 💖 — thank you for the tool, king. 👑

and that's the whole page, bestie! this one's from perl v5.40.1 and it's dated 2026-06-21 — so yeah, iconic, timeless, and fully documented. now go calculate those deps. slay. 💅✨

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