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From: Gary Clark II <gclarkii@main.gbdata.com>
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Subject: Re: LINUX statically linked ELF nogo?
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Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 18:41:53 -0500 (CDT)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970512135646.3934C-100000@totum.plaut.de> from Michael Reifenberger at "May 12, 97 01:58:37 pm"
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Michael Reifenberger wrote:
> On Mon, 12 May 1997, Doug Rabson wrote:
> 
> > Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 12:54:03 +0100 (BST)
> > From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
> > To: Michael Reifenberger <root@totum.plaut.de>
> > Cc: FreeBSD-Current <current@freebsd.org>
> > Subject: Re: LINUX statically linked ELF nogo?
> > 
> > On Mon, 12 May 1997, Michael Reifenberger wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > > Is anybody aware of a problem with statically linked Linux-ELF binaries?
> > > 
> > > I try to install ADABAS-D Personal-Edition for Linux.
> > > You can get it for free (http://www.sag.de) BTW.
> > > 
> > > The installation prog "install" works fine
> > > file /.cd/install
> > > 	install: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1, 
> > > 	dynamically linked, not stripped
> > > 
> > > BUT:
> > > file bin/xcontrol
> > > 	bin/xcontrol: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1,
> > > 	statically linked, not stripped
> > > 
> > > ./bin/xcontrol
> > > 	ELF binary type not known 
> > > 	Abort
> > > 
> > > Can anybody help?
> > > 
> > > Probably we need to add the according identifying bits to the Linux-exe-loader
> > 
> > You need something like:
> > 
> > 	brandelf -t linux bin/xcontrol
> > 
> No:
> 
> > brandelf -t linux bin/xcontrol
> > brandelf bin/xcontrol
> File 'bin/xcontrol' is of brand 'linux'.
> > ./bin/xcontrol
> ELF binary type not known
> Abort
> 
> Its not only the brand. 
> 
Are you SURE that you have the linux emulator installed?  What does
modstat show?  That is a classic example of the lack of the emulator.

Gary

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