question re. shared libraries

I am using UFFI 1.4.12, and the 2003-11 build of CMUCL on Linux.

I am trying to understand the situation with loading shared libraries
(.so) files.  For instance, I have written a small C program that
accesses a function in a .so library.  At link time, I link to this
library only, and the program runs.  If I ldd on this small C program,
I get a list of 11 libraries that are being dynamically loaded.  Do I
need to manually preload all these, perhaps in the reverse of the
order they're listed in ldd, for CMUCL to be happy?

Also, is the fact that load-foreign-library returns T without
specifying any of the "dependency" libraries relevant?  Or will it
happily return T as long as it finds the shared library itself, and
then I lose when I try to use it?

Cheers,

rif