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

> Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 12:54:03 +0100 (BST)
> From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
> To: Michael Reifenberger <root@totum.plaut.de>
> Cc: FreeBSD-Current <current@freebsd.org>
> Subject: Re: LINUX statically linked ELF nogo?
> 
> 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
> 
No:

> brandelf -t linux bin/xcontrol
> brandelf bin/xcontrol
File 'bin/xcontrol' is of brand 'linux'.
> ./bin/xcontrol
ELF binary type not known
Abort

Its not only the brand. 


Bye!
----
Michael Reifenberger
Plaut Software GmbH, R/3 Basis