Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 18:58:50 +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: <201012151858.58520.tijl@coosemans.org> In-Reply-To: <20101206151630.GB55368@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <20101129130415.GA47982@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <201012061406.31522.tijl@coosemans.org> <20101206151630.GB55368@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk>
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--nextPart1680145.AXZLOnqFAl Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Monday 06 December 2010 16:16:30 Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 02:06:22PM +0100, Tijl Coosemans wrote: >> 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=20 >>>>> a.out: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, IA-64, version 1 (SYSV), statically >>>>> linked, not stripped >>>>>=20 >>>>> [amd64] >>>>> amd64% file a.out=20 >>>>> a.out: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (FreeBSD), >>>>> statically linked, for FreeBSD 9.0 (900023), not stripped >>>>=20 >>>> 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. >>>>=20 >>>> This is a binutils problem. >>> >>> Anybody here can explain better what Marcel meant >>> by "binutils problem", and how to fix it? >>>=20 >>> I've binutils-2.20.1_3 installed from devel/binutils. >>=20 >> As a workaround you could manually brand the executable: >> brandelf -f 9 a.out >=20 > this works fine. A fix has been committed to CURRENT, 8-STABLE and 7-STABLE. You should no longer have to brand executables manually. --nextPart1680145.AXZLOnqFAl Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (FreeBSD) iF4EABEIAAYFAk0JAeIACgkQfoCS2CCgtiuFDwD/VaDCiRJI5PGhqOtn57l7y6E4 QGDrtYaSxrRv6T6hDXUA/Aub+tx9GEmfjAcshlsuEOBcQuSuvVGLF+nsC0I74uSp =C7kg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1680145.AXZLOnqFAl--
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