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24.Dd March 25, 2014
25.Dt BRANDELF 1
26.Os
27.Sh NAME
28.Nm brandelf
29.Nd mark an ELF binary for a specific ABI
30.Sh SYNOPSIS
31.Nm
32.Op Fl lv
33.Op Fl f Ar ELF_ABI_number
34.Op Fl t Ar string
35.Ar
36.Sh DESCRIPTION
37The
38.Nm
39utility marks an ELF binary to be run under a certain ABI for
40.Fx .
41.Pp
42The options are as follows:
43.Bl -tag -width indent
44.It Fl f Ar ELF_ABI_number
45Forces branding with the supplied ELF ABI number.
46Incompatible with the
47.Fl t
48option.
49These values are assigned by SCO/USL.
50.It Fl l
51Writes the list of all known ELF types to the standard error.
52.It Fl v
53Turns on verbose output.
54.It Fl t Ar string
55Brands the given ELF binaries to be of the
56.Ar string
57ABI type.
58Currently supported ABIs are
59.Dq Li FreeBSD ,
60.Dq Li Linux ,
61and
62.Dq Li SVR4 .
63.It Ar file
64If
65.Fl t Ar string
66is given it will brand
67.Ar file
68to be of type
69.Ar string ,
70otherwise it will simply display the branding of
71.Ar file .
72.El
73.Sh EXIT STATUS
74Exit status is 0 on success, and 1 if the command
75fails if a file does not exist, is too short, fails to brand properly,
76or the brand requested is not one of the known types and the
77.Fl f
78option is not set.
79.Sh EXAMPLES
80The following is an example of a typical usage
81of the
82.Nm
83command:
84.Bd -literal -offset indent
85brandelf file
86brandelf -t Linux file
87.Ed
88.Sh SEE ALSO
89.Rs
90.%A The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
91.%T System V Application Binary Interface
92.%D April 29, 1998 (DRAFT)
93.%U http://www.sco.com/developers/devspecs/
94.Re
95.Sh HISTORY
96The
97.Nm
98manual page first appeared in
99.Fx 2.2 .
100.Sh AUTHORS
101This manual page was written by
102.An John-Mark Gurney Aq Mt jmg@FreeBSD.org .
103