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28.\" $FreeBSD$
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30.Dd February 6, 1997
31.Dt BRANDELF 1
32.Os FreeBSD
33.Sh NAME
34.Nm brandelf
35.Nd mark an ELF binary for a specific ABI
36.Sh SYNOPSIS
37.Nm
38.Op Fl lv
39.Op Fl f Ar ELF_ABI_number
40.Op Fl t Ar string
41.Ar
42.Sh DESCRIPTION
43This command marks an ELF binary to be run under a certain ABI for
44.Fx .
45.Pp
46The options are as follows:
47.Bl -tag -width Fl
48.It Fl f Ar ELF_ABI_number
49forces branding with the supplied ELF ABI number.
50Incompatible with the
51.Fl t
52option.
53These values are assigned by SCO/USL.
54.It Fl l
55lists all known ELF types on the standard error channel.
56.It Fl v
57turns on verbose reporting.
58.It Fl t Ar string
59Brands the given ELF binaries to be of the
60.Ar string
61ABI type.
62Currently supported ABIs are
63.Dq Fx ,
64.Dq Tn Linux ,
65and
66.Dq Tn SVR4 .
67.It Ar file
68If
69.Fl t Ar string
70is given it will brand
71.Ar file
72to be of type
73.Ar string ,
74otherwise it will simply display the branding of
75.Ar file .
76.El
77.Sh EXAMPLES
78The following is an example of a typical usage
79of the
80.Nm
81command:
82.Pp
83.Dl % brandelf file
84.Dl % brandelf -t Linux file
85.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
86Exit status is 0 on success, and 1 if the command
87fails if a file does not exist, is too short, fails to brand properly,
88or the brand requested is not one of the known types and the
89.Fl f
90option is not set.
91.Sh SEE ALSO
92.Rs
93.%A The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
94.%T System V Application Binary Interface
95.%D April 29, 1998 (DRAFT)
96.%O http://www.sco.com/developer/devspecs/
97.Re
98.Sh HISTORY
99The
100.Nm
101manual page first appeared in
102.Fx 2.2 .
103.Sh AUTHORS
104This manual page was written by
105.An John-Mark Gurney Aq gurney_j@efn.org .
106