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BRANDELF(1)            DragonFly General Commands Manual           BRANDELF(1)


NAME

     brandelf - mark an ELF binary for a specific ABI


SYNOPSIS

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


DESCRIPTION

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

     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.

     -t string
             Brands the given ELF binaries to be of the string ABI type.
             Currently supported ABIs are "FreeBSD", "Linux", and "SVR4".
             DragonFly uses "FreeBSD" as its native branding.

     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>.

DragonFly 5.9-DEVELOPMENT      February 6, 1997      DragonFly 5.9-DEVELOPMENT

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