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24.\" $FreeBSD$
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26.Dd February 6, 1997
27.Dt BRANDELF 1
28.Os
29.Sh NAME
30.Nm brandelf
31.Nd mark an ELF binary for a specific ABI
32.Sh SYNOPSIS
33.Nm
34.Op Fl lv
35.Op Fl f Ar ELF_ABI_number
36.Op Fl t Ar string
37.Ar
38.Sh DESCRIPTION
39The
40.Nm
41utility marks an ELF binary to be run under a certain ABI for
42.Fx .
43.Pp
44The options are as follows:
45.Bl -tag -width indent
46.It Fl f Ar ELF_ABI_number
47Forces branding with the supplied ELF ABI number.
48Incompatible with the
49.Fl t
50option.
51These values are assigned by SCO/USL.
52.It Fl l
53Writes the list of all known ELF types to the standard error.
54.It Fl v
55Turns on verbose output.
56.It Fl t Ar string
57Brands the given ELF binaries to be of the
58.Ar string
59ABI type.
60Currently supported ABIs are
61.Dq Li FreeBSD ,
62.Dq Li Linux ,
63and
64.Dq Li SVR4 .
65.It Ar file
66If
67.Fl t Ar string
68is given it will brand
69.Ar file
70to be of type
71.Ar string ,
72otherwise it will simply display the branding of
73.Ar file .
74.El
75.Sh EXIT STATUS
76Exit status is 0 on success, and 1 if the command
77fails if a file does not exist, is too short, fails to brand properly,
78or the brand requested is not one of the known types and the
79.Fl f
80option is not set.
81.Sh EXAMPLES
82The following is an example of a typical usage
83of the
84.Nm
85command:
86.Bd -literal -offset indent
87brandelf file
88brandelf -t Linux file
89.Ed
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.%U 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