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 <xcl...@mac.com> ----- > >> 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. many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423 _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"