svn commit: r286070 - in head/contrib/elftoolchain: ar elfdump

[Ed Maste]

On 31 July 2015 at 11:33, Pedro Giffuni <pfg at freebsd.org> wrote:
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> FWIW, elftoolchain's brandelf was based on our brandelf, but modified
> to use libelf. I think brandelf may not be needed anymore though; it's
> main use was to add ELF branding notes to linux binaries for our
> linuxulator.
>
> There was a mess with the linux maintainers not wanting to use ELF
> branding notes but long story short, our linuxulator understands the now
> GNU branding scheme and linux is also using the standard ELF branding notes.

Yes, these three ELF Tool Chain tools (ar, elfdump, brandelf) all
originated in FreeBSD, and I left them to the end of the ELF Tool
Chain integration project as the in-tree versions work and have a few
features not yet in ELF Tool Chain.

In any case, I think it's probably because of the Linuxolator updates
that brandelf slipped my mind. I prefer not having to modify binaries
for normal Linuxolator use, and perhaps we can just deprecate
brandelf.