On Monday 06 December 2010 16:16:30 Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 02:06:22PM +0100, Tijl Coosemans wrote: >> On Monday 29 November 2010 14:04:16 Anton Shterenlikht wrote: >>> ----- Forwarded message from Marcel Moolenaar <xcl...@mac.com> ----- >>>> On Nov 10, 2010, at 5:32 AM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: >>>>> [ia64] >>>>> ia64% file a.out >>>>> a.out: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, IA-64, version 1 (SYSV), statically >>>>> linked, not stripped >>>>> >>>>> [amd64] >>>>> amd64% file a.out >>>>> a.out: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (FreeBSD), >>>>> statically linked, for FreeBSD 9.0 (900023), not stripped >>>> >>>> The branding on ia64 is wrong. The executable is not marked as being >>>> a FreeBSD executable. It's declared as SYSV, whereas on amd64 it's >>>> properly declared as FreeBSD. >>>> >>>> This is a binutils problem. >>> >>> Anybody here can explain better what Marcel meant >>> by "binutils problem", and how to fix it? >>> >>> I've binutils-2.20.1_3 installed from devel/binutils. >> >> As a workaround you could manually brand the executable: >> brandelf -f 9 a.out > > this works fine.
A fix has been committed to CURRENT, 8-STABLE and 7-STABLE. You should no longer have to brand executables manually.
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