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

[Roman Divacky]

On Sat, Jun 02, 2007 at 10:08:16AM -0600, John E Hein wrote:
> 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'

ok.. problem solved ;) given that we support the upx program with the ports
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