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Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 12:54:03 +0100 (BST)
From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To: Michael Reifenberger <root@totum.plaut.de>
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Subject: Re: LINUX statically linked ELF nogo?
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On Mon, 12 May 1997, Michael Reifenberger wrote:

> Hi,
> Is anybody aware of a problem with statically linked Linux-ELF binaries?
> 
> I try to install ADABAS-D Personal-Edition for Linux.
> You can get it for free (http://www.sag.de) BTW.
> 
> The installation prog "install" works fine
> file /.cd/install
> 	install: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1, 
> 	dynamically linked, not stripped
> 
> BUT:
> file bin/xcontrol
> 	bin/xcontrol: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1,
> 	statically linked, not stripped
> 
> ./bin/xcontrol
> 	ELF binary type not known 
> 	Abort
> 
> Can anybody help?
> 
> Probably we need to add the according identifying bits to the Linux-exe-loader

You need something like:

	brandelf -t linux bin/xcontrol

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