From owner-freebsd-current Mon Apr 17 21:31:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 893A937BC3F for ; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 21:31:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.ucdavis.edu) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.cdrom.com [204.216.28.153]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA92742 for ; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 21:31:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id VAA05134 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 21:31:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 21:31:21 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: ** HEADS UP ** ELF Branding changes require action on your part. Message-ID: <20000417213121.A5099@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@NUXI.ucdavis.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Forwarded message from "David E. O'Brien" ----- Log: Change our ELF binary branding to something more acceptable to the Binutils maintainers. ... Note that a new kernel can still properly load old binaries except for Linux static binaries branded in our old method. ----- End forwarded message ----- One statically linked Linux binary that will cause you trouble after you build world is the Linux ``ldconfig''. After your ``make world'' and before you reboot that new kernel, issue: brandelf -t Linux /compat/linux/sbin/ldconfig -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message