Trouble with dynamic executables

[Andrew Duane]

I've pretty much completed my board bringup of an OCTEON based board, but am still battling one *major* issue. Dynamically linked executables do not work at all. Any time I try to run one, I get "Exec format error" (ENOEXEC). Sample output from file is:

Statically linked /bin/cat:

bin/cat:      ELF 64-bit MSB executable, MIPS, MIPS64 rel2 version 1 (FreeBSD), for FreeBSD 9.0 (900035), statically linked, FreeBSD-style, not stripped

Dynamically linked /usr/bin/size:

usr/bin/size: ELF 64-bit MSB executable, MIPS, MIPS64 rel2 version 1 (FreeBSD), for FreeBSD 9.0 (900035), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), FreeBSD-style, not stripped

For now, I've sort of worked around this by editing close to 1000 Makefiles and making almost everything static. There must be a reason for this though. I've done a fresh update and rebuilt everything including the toolchain. Is there something missing from my system? The loader itself? Libraries? An ldscript file?

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Andrew Duane             Juniper Networks
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