Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 01:34:09 +0000 From: Jason Henson <jason@ec.rr.com> To: David Fleck <david.fleck@mchsi.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Realplay10GOLD] Error: ELF binary type "0" not known Message-ID: <1110764049l.17082l.0l@BARTON> In-Reply-To: <20050313110022.G98716@grond.sourballs.org> (from david.fleck@mchsi.com on Sun Mar 13 12:08:43 2005) References: <7ae53963050311004747c48d5d@mail.gmail.com> <20050313110022.G98716@grond.sourballs.org>
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On 03/13/05 12:08:43, David Fleck wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Mar 2005, Jason Henson wrote:
>
>> On 03/11/05 03:47:27, P.H.Tung wrote:
>>> I successfully installed Realplayer10GOLD on FreeBSD released 5.3
>>> When I run realplay from console, I got following error:
>>> ELF binary type "0" not known.
>>> /usr/local/lib/RealPlayer/realplay.bin: 1: Syntax error: "("
>>> unexpected
>>>
>>> What does it means? any advises?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> _______________________________________________
>>
>>
>> Sounds like a compiler error? Check man brandelf.
>> $ brandelf -l
>> known ELF types are: FreeBSD(9) Linux(3) Solaris(6) SVR4(0)
>>
>> You could try to rebrand it to type 9.
>>
>> as root:
>>
>> brandelf -f 9 /usr/local/lib/RealPlayer/realplay.bin
>>
>> But the syntax error, how would that get there? Try to make
>> reinstall after a make distclean if branding fails.
>
>
> It's a little more mysterious than that.
> the Realplayer port is a Linux binary, so branding it for FreeBSD
> probably won't work. But here's what's odd -- I just installed
> linux-realplayer-10.0.2_1, and it seems to have installed OK. When I
> check its branding, I get:
>
> bender# brandelf /usr/local/lib/RealPlayer/realplay.bin
> File '/usr/local/lib/RealPlayer/realplay.bin' is of brand 'SVR4' (0).
>
> so it's not branded for Linux or FreeBSD! And yet it seems to be ok.
>
> And the 'Syntax error' the OP is getting makes no sense at all.
>
>
> My suggestion at this point - do
>
> brandelf /usr/local/lib/RealPlayer/realplay.bin
> file /usr/local/lib/RealPlayer/realplay.bin
>
> and report the results back.
>
>
> --
> David Fleck
> david.fleck@mchsi.com
>
> _______________________________________________
The 0 branding is for any non-BSD (i.e. System V based) Unix, like
linux too. System V based Unixes (SVR4, Solaris 2.x, SCO ODT 3.0, AIX,
A/UX, DELL, ...). They will run on BSD. I used to not put the -
freeBSD in my f@h client and I would run into this. I rebrand them and
all is well. I might should download the correct ones just to be safe?
You say you installed, did you do a make install using ports? If not
remove the program and use the port. If you did use the port then here
is some more info.
Some programs can have `-DSVR4' added to the CFLAGS in their Makefile
to generate a SVR4 bin. Maybe you should cd to /usr/ports/multimedia/
realplayer(right spot?) and do a make config, and check the makefile
for such flags.
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