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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.



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elf2ecoff

ELF2ECOFF(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 					      ELF2ECOFF(1)

NAME

     elf2ecoff -- convert a NetBSD ELF-format executable to NetBSD ECOFF format

SYNOPSIS

     elf2ecoff elf-file ecoff-file

DESCRIPTION

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

     The elf2ecoff utility is used to convert native NetBSD ELF binaries to ECOFF format, for compatibility with DECstation diskless-boot PROM
     code and diskless-boot servers that require ECOFF format binaries.

SEE ALSO

     elf2aout(1), ld(1), kvm(3), a.out(5), elf(5), kvm_mkdb(8)

HISTORY

     elf2ecoff was originally developed for NetBSD/pmax by Ted Lemon and was first distributed with the pmax port of NetBSD 1.1.

BUGS

     elf2ecoff assumes there are no multiply-referenced symbols in the input ELF symbol section.  It may be necessary to link with -x to avoid
     duplicate symbols.

     In some environments, the GNU binutils objcopy(1) utility may be a better solution than elf2ecoff.

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