Why are arm libs branded as SYSV?

[Andrew Turner]

On Tue, 07 Oct 2014 16:56:49 +0200
"Ronald Klop" <ronald-lists at 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