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From: Conrad Sabatier <conrads@home.com>
To: Jarkko Levo <lardy@welho.com>
Subject: Re: Unknown ELF binary at make buildworld
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On 14-Oct-2001 Jarkko Levo wrote:
> 
> I used cvsup to update my source branch. I downloaded the new source tree
> and I now have a local copy of the source tree at /usr/src/. When I did a
> 'make buildworld' it makes it for about an hour and then get's an error:
> 
> ===> gnu/usr.bin/perl/perl
> cc -nostdinc -O -pipe
> -I/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/perl/perl/../../../../contrib/perl5
> -I/usr/obj/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/perl/perl
> -I/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/include  -c perlmain.c
> ELF binary type not known.  Use "brandelf" to brand it.
> Abort trap
> *** Error code 134
> 
> So by that error message I can't tell what specific file has the unknown
> ELF binary type, as which file should be  brandelfed? Thank you already
> in advance for any help.

That's pretty weird; I've never seen anything like that during a buildworld
before.

You might try setting the kern.fallback_elf_brand sysctl to 9 (FreeBSD) and
see if that helps:

        sysctl -w kern.fallback_elf_brand=9

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Conrad Sabatier <conrads@home.com>

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