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BRANDELF(1) General Commands Manual BRANDELF(1)

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:

ELF_ABI_number
Forces branding with the supplied ELF ABI number. Incompatible with the -t option. These values are assigned by SCO/USL.
Writes the list of all known ELF types to the standard error.
Turns on verbose output.
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

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⟩.
February 6, 1997 Linux 4.19.0-10-amd64