BRANDELF(1)		  BSD General Commands Manual		   BRANDELF(1)

NAME
     brandelf — mark an ELF binary for a specific ABI

SYNOPSIS
     brandelf [-lv] [-f ELF_ABI_number] [-t string] file ...

DESCRIPTION
     The brandelf utility marks an ELF binary to be run under a certain ABI
     for FreeBSD.

     The options are as follows:

     -f ELF_ABI_number
	     Forces branding with the supplied ELF ABI number.	Incompatible
	     with the -t option.  These values are assigned by SCO/USL.

     -l      Writes the list of all known ELF types to the standard error.

     -v      Turns on verbose output.

     -t string
	     Brands the given ELF binaries to be of the string ABI type.  Cur‐
	     rently supported ABIs are “FreeBSD”, “Linux”, and “SVR4”.

     file    If -t string is given it will brand file to be of type string,
	     otherwise it will simply display the branding of file.

EXIT STATUS
     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 -f option is not set.

EXAMPLES
     The following is an example of a typical usage of the brandelf command:

	   brandelf file
	   brandelf -t Linux file

SEE ALSO
     The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc., System V Application Binary Interface,
     http://www.sco.com/developer/devspecs/, April 29, 1998 (DRAFT).

HISTORY
     The brandelf manual page first appeared in FreeBSD 2.2.

AUTHORS
     This manual page was written by John-Mark Gurney ⟨gurney_j@efn.org⟩.

BSD			       February 6, 1997 			   BSD