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Subject: Re: Why are arm libs branded as SYSV?
From: Ian Lepore <ian@FreeBSD.org>
To: Andrew Turner <andrew@fubar.geek.nz>
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On Tue, 2014-10-07 at 16:34 +0100, Andrew Turner wrote:
> On Tue, 07 Oct 2014 16:56:49 +0200
> "Ronald Klop" <ronald-lists@klop.ws> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > On my ARM Sheevaplug:
> > # file /usr/local/lib/libpcre.so.3
> > /usr/local/lib/libpcre.so.3: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, ARM,
> > EABI5 version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, stripped
> > 
> > On my amd64 computer:
> > file /usr/local/lib/libpcre.so.3
> > /usr/local/lib/libpcre.so.3: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64,
> > version 1 (FreeBSD), dynamically linked, stripped
> > 
> > Because of this I can not run ldd on a shared library on my ARM
> > system. # ldd -a /usr/local/lib/libpcre.so.3
> > ldd: /usr/local/lib/libpcre.so.3: not a FreeBSD ELF shared object
> > 
> > 
> > Is that on purpose? I am curious why that is.
> 
> Because the EI_OSABI field, where this value comes from, is documented
> to be zero in the ARM AAELF spec.
> 
> Andrew

Does this imply we have to update our elf tools to recognize the
freebsd-ness of arm eabi objects in some other way?

-- Ian