Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 14:06:22 +0100 From: Tijl Coosemans <tijl@coosemans.org> To: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: binutils problem? WAS [Re: static linking error: ELF binary type "0" not known. Exec format error. Binary file not executable.] Message-ID: <201012061406.31522.tijl@coosemans.org> In-Reply-To: <20101129130415.GA47982@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <20101129130415.GA47982@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Monday 29 November 2010 14:04:16 Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > ----- Forwarded message from Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com> ----- >> On Nov 10, 2010, at 5:32 AM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: >>> [ia64] >>> ia64% file a.out >>> a.out: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, IA-64, version 1 (SYSV), statically >>> linked, not stripped >>> >>> [amd64] >>> amd64% file a.out >>> a.out: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (FreeBSD), >>> statically linked, for FreeBSD 9.0 (900023), not stripped >> >> The branding on ia64 is wrong. The executable is not marked as being >> a FreeBSD executable. It's declared as SYSV, whereas on amd64 it's >> properly declared as FreeBSD. >> >> This is a binutils problem. > > Anybody here can explain better what Marcel meant > by "binutils problem", and how to fix it? > > I've binutils-2.20.1_3 installed from devel/binutils. As a workaround you could manually brand the executable: brandelf -f 9 a.out [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (FreeBSD) iF4EABEIAAYFAkz839cACgkQfoCS2CCgtiuD8QD9F/67z7Ono8aNV++ShoFSr/Ma t0a9B1oPrsWI//nOU7AA/0UU0dHcQmhmf4DIdFKw014y14DpYOfXMFdhhHJ/EdWq =Qgu7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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