mith@vpn:0:~/src/sdb-test$ ld -lcurl -lxml2 -L/usr/lib -lsdb -lssl -o testy testy.o /usr/lib/libsdb.a 
ld: warning: cannot find entry symbol _start; defaulting to 0000000008048eb0
mith@vpn:0:~/src/sdb-test$ ./testy
-bash: ./testy: No such file or directory
mith@vpn:127:~/src/sdb-test$ ls -ld testy
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mith mith 148K May 19 09:57 testy*

mith@vpn:0:~/src/sdb-test$ ldd testy
	linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xb77c9000)
	libcurl-gnutls.so.4 => /usr/lib/libcurl-gnutls.so.4 (0xb776f000)
	libxml2.so.2 => /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2 (0xb7645000)
	libssl.so.0.9.8 => /usr/lib/i686/cmov/libssl.so.0.9.8 (0xb75fa000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb74b4000)
	libcrypto.so.0.9.8 => /usr/lib/i686/cmov/libcrypto.so.0.9.8 (0xb735c000)
	libidn.so.11 => /usr/lib/libidn.so.11 (0xb732b000)
	liblber-2.4.so.2 => /usr/lib/liblber-2.4.so.2 (0xb731f000)
	libldap_r-2.4.so.2 => /usr/lib/libldap_r-2.4.so.2 (0xb72d9000)
	librt.so.1 => /lib/i686/cmov/librt.so.1 (0xb72d0000)
	libgssapi_krb5.so.2 => /usr/lib/libgssapi_krb5.so.2 (0xb72a1000)
	libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0xb728d000)
	libgnutls.so.26 => /usr/lib/libgnutls.so.26 (0xb71f5000)
	libgcrypt.so.11 => /usr/lib/libgcrypt.so.11 (0xb7180000)
	libdl.so.2 => /lib/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0xb717c000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib/i686/cmov/libm.so.6 (0xb7156000)
	/usr/lib/libc.so.1 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb77ca000)
	libresolv.so.2 => /lib/i686/cmov/libresolv.so.2 (0xb7142000)
	libsasl2.so.2 => /usr/lib/libsasl2.so.2 (0xb712b000)
	libpthread.so.0 => /lib/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 (0xb7111000)
	libkrb5.so.3 => /usr/lib/libkrb5.so.3 (0xb705f000)
	libk5crypto.so.3 => /usr/lib/libk5crypto.so.3 (0xb703c000)
	libcom_err.so.2 => /lib/libcom_err.so.2 (0xb7039000)
	libkrb5support.so.0 => /usr/lib/libkrb5support.so.0 (0xb7032000)
	libkeyutils.so.1 => /lib/libkeyutils.so.1 (0xb702e000)
	libtasn1.so.3 => /usr/lib/libtasn1.so.3 (0xb701e000)
	libgpg-error.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgpg-error.so.0 (0xb701a000)