Which version of FreeBSD a binary was compiled for?

Andrew P. infofarmer at gmail.com
Tue Oct 25 15:24:56 PDT 2005


How to tell? Apart from trying to launch it on
different versions without COMPAT* in the
kernel?

One can always carefully examine the output
of ldd, readelf and other such tools, but that
requires much knowledge and a small lab
with all kinds of BSD's set up. Is there a
better way?


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