Re: Debian executables...
On Sun, 2006-02-05 at 20:53 +0000, Digby Tarvin wrote:
> I am a little puzzled about something I just noticed about the
> executable file format of my Debian Sarge install....
>
> It seems to be running gcc 3.3.5, and if I run file(1) on the output
> of the compiler I get:
>
> a.out: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.2.0, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), not stripped
>
> On the old system I upgraded from (SuSE 7.3), the compiler was version 2.95.3
> but running file(1) again (also on the new Debian) I get
>
> a.out: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.2.5, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), not stripped
>
> For some reason, the executable from the old comiler is for GNU/Linux '2.2.5',
> but the output of the newer Debain compiler indicates '2.2.0'...
>
[snip]
>
> Does anyone have any idea what is going on here?
>
> I was rather hoping as a worst case to have gotten some form of
> 'unsupported executable format' error message if there was a
> compatability problem...
Does this give you any insight?
$ ld --version
GNU ld version 2.16.91 20060118 Debian GNU/Linux
Copyright 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
$ gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 4.0.3 20060115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.0.2-7)
Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
$ gcc testmem2.c
me@haggis:~$ file a.out
a.out: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for
GNU/Linux 2.2.0, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), not stripped
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