NAME

brandelf — mark an ELF binary for a specific ABI

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

The brandelf utility marks an ELF binary to be run under a certain ABI for FreeBSD.

The options are as follows:

-f ELF_ABI_number

Forces branding with the supplied ELF ABI number. Incompatible with the -t option. These values are assigned by SCO/USL.

-l

Writes the list of all known ELF types to the standard error.

-v

Turns on verbose output.

-t string

Brands the given ELF binaries to be of the string ABI type. Currently supported ABIs are “FreeBSD”, “Linux”, and “SVR4”.

file

If -t string is given it will brand file to be of type string, otherwise it will simply display the branding of file.

EXIT STATUS

Exit status is 0 on success, and 1 if the command fails if a file does not exist, is too short, fails to brand properly, or the brand requested is not one of the known types and the -f option is not set.

EXAMPLES

The following is an example of a typical usage of the brandelf command:

brandelf file
brandelf -t Linux file

SEE ALSO

The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc., System V Application Binary Interface, http://www.sco.com/developer/devspecs/, April 29, 1998 (DRAFT).

HISTORY

The brandelf manual page first appeared in FreeBSD 2.2.

AUTHORS

This manual page was written by John-Mark Gurney ⟨gurney_j@efn.org⟩.