On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 5:07 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:

> I've noticed that some of the ARM ELF executables I get from other places,
> or some that I build with OpenEmbedded cross-compiler tools, will not
> execute on BBB Angstrom (giving the supremely unhelpful "so such file or
> directory" error). The working binaries on the BBB have the ELF header
> flags word set to 0x5000002, indicating EABI version 5, no specified float
> format (defaulting to soft floats, I believe?). The one's I get that don't
> run have flags set to 0x202, old ABI, soft float. Is there a good reason
> why the newer kernel can't run the older binaries? Are the ABIs that
> different? Is there something else causing this incompatibility?
>

It's not the "kernel" its the lack of the linker/libraries in your
user-space.

Regards,


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Robert Nelson
http://www.rcn-ee.com/

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