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Date:      Mon, 17 Apr 2000 22:03:25 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
To:        obrien@NUXI.ucdavis.edu
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ** HEADS UP **  ELF Branding changes require action on your part.
Message-ID:  <200004180503.WAA01879@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20000417213121.A5099@dragon.nuxi.com> from "David O'Brien" at "Apr 17, 2000 09:31:21 pm"

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David O'Brien wrote:
> ----- Forwarded message from "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> -----
>   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
> 

Does this mean that we can re-brand any statically 
linux binary if it fails?

-- 
Steve


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