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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.Dd February 6, 1997
.Dt BRANDELF 1
.Os FreeBSD
.Sh NAME
.Nm brandelf
.Nd mark an ELF binary for a specific ABI
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
.Op Fl lv
.Op Fl f Ar ELF_ABI_number
.Op Fl t Ar string
.Ar
.Sh DESCRIPTION
This command marks an ELF binary to be run under a certain ABI for
.Tn FreeBSD .
.Pp
The options are as follows:
.Bl -tag -width Fl
.It Fl f Ar ELF_ABI_number
forces branding with the supplied ELF ABI number.
Incompatible with the
.Fl t
option.
These values are assigned by SCO/USL.
.It Fl l
lists all known ELF types on the standard error channel.
.It Fl v
turns on verbose reporting.
.It Fl t Ar string
Brands the given ELF binaries to be of the
.Ar string
ABI type.
Currently supported ABIs are
.Dq Tn FreeBSD ,
.Dq Tn Linux ,
and
.Dq Tn SVR4 .
.It Ar file
If
.Fl t Ar string
is given it will brand
.Ar file
to be of type
.Ar string ,
otherwise it will simply display the branding of
.Ar file .
.El
.Sh EXAMPLES
The following is an example of a typical usage
of the
.Nm
command:
.Pp
.Dl % brandelf file
.Dl % brandelf -t Linux file
.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
Exit status is 0 on success, and 1 if the command
fails if a file does not exist, is too short, fails to brand properly,
or the brand requested is not one of the known types and the
.Fl f
option is not set.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Rs
.%A The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
.%T System V Application Binary Interface
.%D April 29, 1998 (DRAFT)
.%O http://www.sco.com/developer/devspecs/
.Re
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
manual page first appeared in
.Fx 2.2 .
.Sh AUTHORS
This manual page was written by
.An John-Mark Gurney Aq gurney_j@efn.org .