Re: binutils problem? WAS [Re: static linking error: ELF binary type "0" not known. Exec format error. Binary file not executable.]

On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 06:58:50PM +0100, Tijl Coosemans wrote:
On Monday 06 December 2010 16:16:30 Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 02:06:22PM +0100, Tijl Coosemans wrote:
On Monday 29 November 2010 14:04:16 Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
----- Forwarded message from Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@xxxxxxx> -----
On Nov 10, 2010, at 5:32 AM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
[ia64]
ia64% file a.out
a.out: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, IA-64, version 1 (SYSV), statically
linked, not stripped

[amd64]
amd64% file a.out
a.out: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (FreeBSD),
statically linked, for FreeBSD 9.0 (900023), not stripped

The branding on ia64 is wrong. The executable is not marked as being
a FreeBSD executable. It's declared as SYSV, whereas on amd64 it's
properly declared as FreeBSD.

This is a binutils problem.

Anybody here can explain better what Marcel meant
by "binutils problem", and how to fix it?

I've binutils-2.20.1_3 installed from devel/binutils.

As a workaround you could manually brand the executable:
brandelf -f 9 a.out

this works fine.

A fix has been committed to CURRENT, 8-STABLE and 7-STABLE. You should
no longer have to brand executables manually.

yes, just checked, many thanks.
anton



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