From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21749 invoked by alias); 7 Sep 2006 18:27:50 -0000 Received: (qmail 21740 invoked by uid 22791); 7 Sep 2006 18:27:49 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from pool-71-248-179-229.bstnma.fios.verizon.net (HELO cgf.cx) (71.248.179.229) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 07 Sep 2006 18:27:47 +0000 Received: by cgf.cx (Postfix, from userid 201) id BAEA313C049; Thu, 7 Sep 2006 14:27:45 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 18:27:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cannot execute binary file Message-ID: <20060907182745.GB3831@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <45005FFE.6030302@unix.telasic.com> <014301c6d2aa$2eb33e90$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <014301c6d2aa$2eb33e90$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2006-09/txt/msg00110.txt.bz2 On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 07:19:39PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: >On 07 September 2006 19:08, Arun Biyani wrote: >>Recently, I've run into this "cannot execute binary file" problem. I >>have not run this program for 3-4 months but before that it would run >>fine in Cygwin. It was compiled and linked for Cygwin even though >>"file" command says linux. > >>[rom$:553] m68k-elf-objcopy -O binary umon_rom.elf umon_rom.bin >>/bin/m68k-elf-objcopy: /bin/m68k-elf-objcopy: cannot execute binary file >>[rom$:554] file /bin/m68k-elf-objcopy >>/bin/m68k-elf-objcopy: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.2.5, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.2.5, stripped > >No. No way on earth did it ever run that file. If the file command >says linux, then it IS linux. You must have overwritten your cygwin >version at some stage with a linux version. I suspect that there is a m68k-elf-objcopy and a m68k-elf-objcopy.exe file there. The m68k-elf-objcopy (without the .exe extension) should be deleted. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/