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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.Tn FreeBSD .
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 Tn FreeBSD
64and
65.Dq Linux .
66.It Ar file
67If
68.Fl t Ar string
69is given it will brand
70.Ar file
71to be of type
72.Ar string ,
73otherwise it will simply display the branding of
74.Ar file .
75.El
76.Sh EXAMPLES
77The following is an example of a typical usage
78of the
79.Nm
80command:
81.Pp
82.Dl % brandelf file
83.Dl % brandelf -t Linux file
84.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
85Exit status is 0 on success, and 1 if the command
86fails if a file does not exist, is too short, fails to brand properly,
87or the brand requested is not one of the known types and the
88.Fl f
89option is not set.
90.Sh SEE ALSO
91.Rs
92.%A The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
93.%T System V Application Binary Interface
94.%D April 29, 1998 (DRAFT)
95.%O http://www.sco.com/developer/devspecs/
96.Re
97.Sh HISTORY
98The
99.Nm
100manual page first appeared in
101.Fx 2.2 .
102.Sh AUTHORS
103This manual page was written by
104.An John-Mark Gurney Aq gurney_j@efn.org .
105