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28.\" $FreeBSD$
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30.Dd February 6, 1997
31.Dt BRANDELF 1
32.Os
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
43The
44.Nm
45utility marks an ELF binary to be run under a certain ABI for
46.Fx .
47.Pp
48The options are as follows:
49.Bl -tag -width indent
50.It Fl f Ar ELF_ABI_number
51Forces branding with the supplied ELF ABI number.
52Incompatible with the
53.Fl t
54option.
55These values are assigned by SCO/USL.
56.It Fl l
57Writes the list of all known ELF types to the standard error.
58.It Fl v
59Turns on verbose output.
60.It Fl t Ar string
61Brands the given ELF binaries to be of the
62.Ar string
63ABI type.
64Currently supported ABIs are
65.Dq Li FreeBSD ,
66.Dq Li Linux ,
67and
68.Dq Li SVR4 .
69.It Ar file
70If
71.Fl t Ar string
72is given it will brand
73.Ar file
74to be of type
75.Ar string ,
76otherwise it will simply display the branding of
77.Ar file .
78.El
79.Sh EXIT STATUS
80Exit status is 0 on success, and 1 if the command
81fails if a file does not exist, is too short, fails to brand properly,
82or the brand requested is not one of the known types and the
83.Fl f
84option is not set.
85.Sh EXAMPLES
86The following is an example of a typical usage
87of the
88.Nm
89command:
90.Bd -literal -offset indent
91brandelf file
92brandelf -t Linux file
93.Ed
94.Sh SEE ALSO
95.Rs
96.%A The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
97.%T System V Application Binary Interface
98.%D April 29, 1998 (DRAFT)
99.%U http://www.sco.com/developer/devspecs/
100.Re
101.Sh HISTORY
102The
103.Nm
104manual page first appeared in
105.Fx 2.2 .
106.Sh AUTHORS
107This manual page was written by
108.An John-Mark Gurney Aq gurney_j@efn.org .
109