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29.Dd February 6, 1997
30.Dt BRANDELF 1
31.Os FreeBSD
32.Sh NAME
33.Nm brandelf
34.Nd mark an ELF binary for a specific ABI
35.Sh SYNOPSIS
36.Nm brandelf
37.Op Fl v
38.Op Fl t Ar string
39.Ar file ...
40.Sh DESCRIPTION
41This command marks an ELF binary to be run under a certain ABI for FreeBSD.
42.Pp
43The options are as follows:
44.Bl -tag -width Fl
45.It Fl v
46turns on verbose reporting
47.It Fl t Ar string
48Brands the given ELF binaries with
49.Ar string
50as the ABI type.  Currently supported ABI's are
51.Dq FreeBSD
52and
53.Dq Linux .
54.It Ar file
55If
56.Fl t Ar string
57is given it will brand
58.Ar file
59with
60.Ar string ,
61otherwise it will simply display the branding of
62.Ar file .
63.El
64.Sh EXAMPLES
65The following is an example of a typical usage
66of the
67.Nm
68command:
69.Pp
70.Dl % brandelf file
71.Dl % brandelf -t Linux file
72.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
73Exit status is 0 on success, and 1 if the command
74fails if a file doesn't exist, is too short, or fails to brand properly.
75.Sh HISTORY
76The
77.Nm
78manual page first appeared in
79.Fx 3.0 .
80.Sh AUTHOR
81This
82manual page was written by John-Mark Gurney
83.Aq gurney_j@efn.org .
84