Cannot execute binary file

Arun Biyani abiyani@unix.telasic.com
Thu Sep 7 18:50:00 GMT 2006


Thx, very much. There are 2 files there exactly as you state.
Arun

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 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
>
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