RESOLUTION - Re: debian binary compatability...

2006-02-07 Thread Digby Tarvin
Didn't get any takers on this one, so I assume that there arn't too many elf experts on the list.. Consequently I spent a bit of time reading up on how elf works, and I think I have gotten to the bottom of it. In case it helps anyone else, the secret is as follows.. The '.interp' section of the

debian binary compatability...

2006-02-06 Thread Digby Tarvin
Still trying to work out why binary executables which file(1) identifies as: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped Which are part of a non-source commercial Linux application dated from around 1998, and ran fine on my SuSE s