sparc64/146387: 'file' command on sparc64 doesn't interpret sparc64 (V9) executables

[Marius Strobl]

The following reply was made to PR sparc64/146387; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Marius Strobl <marius at alchemy.franken.de>
To: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn at freebsd.org>
Cc: bug-followup at freebsd.org, yuri at tsoft.com
Subject: Re: sparc64/146387: 'file' command on sparc64 doesn't interpret sparc64 (V9) executables
Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 21:12:18 +0200

 On Sat, May 08, 2010 at 10:20:03PM +0000, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
 > The following reply was made to PR sparc64/146387; it has been noted by GNATS.
 > 
 > From: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn at freebsd.org>
 > To: Yuri <yuri at tsoft.com>
 > Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
 > Subject: Re: sparc64/146387: 'file' command on sparc64 doesn't interpret sparc64
 >  (V9) executables
 > Date: Sat, 08 May 2010 18:19:49 -0400
 > 
 >  Yuri wrote:
 >  > Description:
 >  >   
 >  > On sparc64:
 >  >   
 >  >> file `which file`
 >  >>     
 >  > /usr/bin/file: ERROR: ELF 64-bit MSB executable, SPARC V9, relaxed memory ordering, version 1 (FreeBSD), statically linkederror reading (File too large)
 >  >
 >  > But when I try 'file' from i386 it correctly recognizes sparc64 executables.
 >  >   
 >  This same thing happens on 64-bit PowerPC, and on all big-endian systems 
 >  (32 or 64 bit) when running file on 64-bit big-endian ELF files. It 
 >  looks like an endian bug in libmagic.
 
 Actually, it appears that the problem is the way the base file/libmagic
 is built as the port version doesn't exhibit such problems:
 v215# file -v 
 file-5.03
 magic file from /usr/share/misc/magic
 v215# file `which file`
 /usr/bin/file: ELF 64-bit MSB executable, SPARC V9, relaxed memory ordering, version 1 (FreeBSD), statically linked, stripped
 v215# /usr/local/bin/file -v
 file-5.03
 magic file from /usr/local/share/file/magic
 v215# /usr/local/bin/file `which file`
 /usr/bin/file: ELF 64-bit MSB executable, SPARC V9, relaxed memory ordering, version 1 (FreeBSD), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for FreeBSD 9.0 (900005), stripped
 
 Marius