NAME

brandelf —

mark an ELF binary for a specific ABI

SYNOPSIS

brandelf [-lv] [-f ELF_ABI_number] [-t string] file ...

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

HISTORY

The brandelf manual page first appeared in FreeBSD 2.2.

AUTHORS

This manual page was written by John-Mark Gurney <jmg@FreeBSD.org>.