What's the easiest way to check if pandoc supports dynamic loading of C libraries?

[rnwst]

See also #6850. I'm looking for a quick and easy way to check if the pandoc binary currently in use supports dynamic loading of C libraries. Unfortunately, pandoc -v doesn't yield this information.

[tarleb]

The only method I know of is to run nm -gD /path/to/pandoc | grep 'lua_newstate'.

We could modify the lua package and add a variable that captures whether the library was compiled with the export-dynamic cabal flag enabled.

[tarleb]

Oh, it's actually much simpler: run ldd /path/to/pandoc, and it will either list a bunch of shared libraries like libgmp, or it will inform you that it's "not a dynamic executable".

[rnwst]

Awesome, thank you! ldd $(which pandoc) is pretty simple indeed!