Quickly move an executable between systems with ELF Statifier Post: 302250272

Sponsored Content

Special Forums News, Links, Events and Announcements UNIX and Linux RSS News Quickly move an executable between systems with ELF Statifier Post 302250272 by Linux Bot on Thursday 23rd of October 2008 04:20:02 AM

10-23-2008

Registered User

Quickly move an executable between systems with ELF Statifier

10-23-2008 01:00 AM
Shared libraries that are dynamically linked make more efficient use of disk space than those that are statically linked, and more importantly allow you to perform security updates in a more efficient manner, but executables compiled against a particular version of a dynamic library expect that version of the shared library to be available on the machine they run on. If you are running machines with both Fedora 9 and openSUSE 11, the versions of some shared libraries are likely to be slightly different, and if you copy an executable between the machines, the file might fail to execute because of these version differences. With ELF Statifier you can create a statically linked version of an executable, so the executable includes the shared libraries instead of seeking them at run time. A staticly linked executable is much more likely to run on a different Linux distribution or a different version of the same distribution.

Source...

Linux Bot

View Public Profile for Linux Bot

Find all posts by Linux Bot

7 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

need solution for this quickly. please quickly.

Write a nawk script that will produce the following report: ***FIRST QUARTERLY REPORT*** ***CAMPAIGN 2004 CONTRIBUTIONS*** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- NAME PHONE Jan | ...

2. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

How can i read a non text file in unix - ELF-64 executable object file - IA64

The binary file is ELF-64 executable object file - IA64. How i know that the source is Is there any comamnd in unix i can read these kind of files or use a thirty party software? Thanks for your help

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Linux Script to move executable to quarantine

Please help! I am preparing a Linux Script to move windows executable files from samba directory to quarantine directory. For safety, will use "file" command to determine if its executable. Anyone can help? Below is my trial script, but it just move everything, including non-executable.. any wrong...

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

move files between file systems with privileges, time stamp

Hi I have to move files between file systems but files in new file system must have the same attributes as in old one (privileges, time stamp etc). Which tool is best : - ufsdump / ufsrestore - tar - cpio - pax - dd - mv Or maybe there is sth else, you suggest to use. Thx for help

5. What is on Your Mind?

From Systems Admin to Systems Eng.

I have been wondering how do Systems Administrators do the jump into Systems Engineering? Is it only a matter of time and experience or could I actually help myself get there? Opinions? Books I could read? Thanks a lot for your help!

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Run executable in one directory and then move to another successively

Hello, I have several hundred subdirectories which contain input files for a binary executable. I need to get into each of the subdirectories, run the executable and then move to the next one and repeat the process. What is the best way to do this? Arbitrarily my file structures look like...

7. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Joing Linux systems to AD and move to OU

Hi, We have joined Linux systems ( RHEL 6.3 ) to Windows AD ( 2008 R2 ). System has been placed in the deafault location 'Computers' in AD. Then we manually move the systems to the respective OU. Is there any option to specify OU location at the time of domain joining ? We are using...

LEARN ABOUT NETBSD

elf2aout

ELF2AOUT(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 					       ELF2AOUT(1)

NAME

     elf2aout -- convert a NetBSD ELF-format executable to NetBSD a.out format

SYNOPSIS

     elf2aout elf-file aout-file

DESCRIPTION

     Reads a fully-linked ELF executable (such as a  linked kernel) and produces an equivalent a.out format executable file.

     The elf2aout utility is used to convert native NetBSD ELF binaries to a.out format, for compatibility with bootblocks and kernel-reading
     utilities like kvm(3) and kvm_mkdb(8), which currently expect an a.out format kernel.

SEE ALSO

     elf2ecoff(1), ld(1), kvm(3), a.out(5), elf(5), kvm_mkdb(8)

HISTORY

     elf2aout was originally developed for NetBSD/pmax by Ted Lemon and was first distributed with the pmax port of NetBSD 1.1.

BUGS

     elf2aout assumes there are no multiply-referenced symbols in the input ELF symbol section.  It may be necessary to link with -x to avoid such
     duplicate symbols.

     In some environments, the GNU binutils objcopy(1) utility may be a better solution than elf2aout.

BSD
								September 30, 1996							       BSD