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31.Dd February 6, 1997
32.Dt BRANDELF 1
33.Os
34.Sh NAME
35.Nm brandelf
36.Nd mark an ELF binary for a specific ABI
37.Sh SYNOPSIS
38.Nm
39.Op Fl lv
40.Op Fl f Ar ELF_ABI_number
41.Op Fl t Ar string
42.Ar
43.Sh DESCRIPTION
44The
45.Nm
46utility marks an ELF binary to be run under a certain ABI for
47.Dx .
48.Pp
49The options are as follows:
50.Bl -tag -width indent
51.It Fl f Ar ELF_ABI_number
52Forces branding with the supplied ELF ABI number.
53Incompatible with the
54.Fl t
55option.
56These values are assigned by SCO/USL.
57.It Fl l
58Writes the list of all known ELF types to the standard error.
59.It Fl v
60Turns on verbose output.
61.It Fl t Ar string
62Brands the given ELF binaries to be of the
63.Ar string
64ABI type.
65Currently supported ABIs are
66.Dq Li FreeBSD ,
67.Dq Li Linux ,
68and
69.Dq Li SVR4 .
70.Ns ( Dx
71currently uses
72.Dq Li FreeBSD
73as its native branding.)
74.It Ar file
75If
76.Fl t Ar string
77is given it will brand
78.Ar file
79to be of type
80.Ar string ,
81otherwise it will simply display the branding of
82.Ar file .
83.El
84.Sh EXIT STATUS
85Exit status is 0 on success, and 1 if the command
86fails if a file does not exist, is too short, fails to brand properly,
87or the brand requested is not one of the known types and the
88.Fl f
89option is not set.
90.Sh EXAMPLES
91The following is an example of a typical usage
92of the
93.Nm
94command:
95.Bd -literal -offset indent
96brandelf file
97brandelf -t Linux file
98.Ed
99.Sh SEE ALSO
100.Rs
101.%A The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
102.%T System V Application Binary Interface
103.%D April 29, 1998 (DRAFT)
104.%O http://www.sco.com/developer/devspecs/
105.Re
106.Sh HISTORY
107The
108.Nm
109manual page first appeared in
110.Fx 2.2 .
111.Sh AUTHORS
112This manual page was written by
113.An John-Mark Gurney Aq gurney_j@efn.org .
114