static linking error: ELF binary type "0" not known. Exec format error. Binary file not executable.

[Marcel Moolenaar]

On Nov 10, 2010, at 5:32 AM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:

[ia64]
> ia64% file a.out 
> a.out: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, IA-64, version 1 (SYSV), statically linked, not stripped

[amd64]
> amd64% file a.out 
> a.out: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (FreeBSD), statically linked, for FreeBSD 9.0 (900023), not stripped

The branding on ia64 is wrong. The executable is not marked as being
a FreeBSD executable. It's declared as SYSV, whereas on amd64 it's
properly declared as FreeBSD.

This is a binutils problem.
FYI,

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