From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17607 invoked by alias); 26 Mar 2007 05:45:28 -0000 Received: (qmail 17597 invoked by uid 22791); 26 Mar 2007 05:45:26 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (HELO ug-out-1314.google.com) (66.249.92.174) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Mon, 26 Mar 2007 06:45:25 +0100 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 75so1506819ugb for ; Sun, 25 Mar 2007 22:45:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.115.23.12 with SMTP id a12mr2500428waj.1174887921698; Sun, 25 Mar 2007 22:45:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.115.109.15 with HTTP; Sun, 25 Mar 2007 22:45:21 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <2538a28f0703252245v5d4cebeas755fe0159d07ceb1@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 07:14:00 -0000 From: "Aashish Gupta" To: "Mike Frysinger" Subject: Re: File not recognized in objdump!! Cc: binutils@sourceware.org In-Reply-To: <200703260122.43200.vapier@gentoo.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <2538a28f0703252214y11a5fb55t5aab41af522580e0@mail.gmail.com> <200703260122.43200.vapier@gentoo.org> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact binutils-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: binutils-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-03/txt/msg00360.txt.bz2 Mike.. we have done a configure with the --target option which recognozes the ELF64 file format and used the ia64 architecture.. Then did a build which was neat worked without any errors./warnings.. So why is this error coming? On 3/26/07, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Monday 26 March 2007, Aashish Gupta wrote: > > I am trying to modify objdump to dump object file information for a > > ELF64 file but on a different > > kernel but its giving an error saying file format not recognized. > > > > > [root@localhost binutils]# ./objdump -s /root/Desktop/testcase/test.o > > > ./objdump: /root/Desktop/testcase/test.o: File format not recognized > > > > Which part of the code should I look for in order to get through this > > error? > > probably none ... build up a binutils for a target that supports the ELF > format you're trying to analyze and/or build up binutils > with --enable-targets=all > -mike > > -- Regards, Aashish Gupta. --------------------------------------------------- Live life as you have no tomorrow, dream as you have eternity..!!