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
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