Which version of FreeBSD a binary was compiled for?

Andrew P. infofarmer at gmail.com
Wed Oct 26 00:27:04 PDT 2005


On 10/26/05, Michael C. Shultz <ringworm01 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 October 2005 00:01, Andrew P. wrote:
> > On 10/26/05, Will Maier <willmaier at ml1.net> wrote:
> > > On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 02:24:54AM +0400, Andrew P. wrote:
> > > > How to tell? Apart from trying to launch it on different versions
> > > > without COMPAT* in the kernel?
> > >
> > > file (1)
> >
> > I don't mean to push it, but how file would ever help
> > me to know subj?
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> Here is an example:
>
> file /usr/bin/man
>
> on my machine outputs:
>
> /usr/bin/man: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD), for
> FreeBSD 5.4-CURRENT (rev 3), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped
>
> -Mike
>

Oh, it's just that file hasn't leared anything about
FreeBSD 6 yet, so it doesn't display version info
when run against my binaries.

Sorry and thanks.


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