Linux_base-fc4/6, FreeBSD 6/7 and some Linux binaries

[John E Hein]

Roman Divacky wrote at 13:14 +0200 on Jun  2, 2007:
 > On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 07:38:47PM +0400, Boris Samorodov wrote:
 > > On Fri, 1 Jun 2007 15:17:41 +0200 Roman Divacky wrote:
 > > 
 > > > > [piso at piso ~/devkitARM]$ file ./bin/git
 > > > > ./bin/git: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1, statically
 > > > > linked, corrupted section header size
 > > 
 > > > hard to say whats going on but "corrupted section header size" looks bad
 > > > to me.
 > > 
 > > Do we support linux binaries which are packed with UPX executable
 > > packer? ;-)

I tried a simple hello world program (with extra spaces to make it
compressable), compiled and upx'd under linux.  It worked fine under
FreeBSD 6-stable (and file reported the same 'corrupted section header
size').

That doesn't prove that it will work with all programs, of course.


 > never heard about it... is there any way how to "unpack" it, thus making
 > it normal linux elf?

Yep.  'upx -d'