Which version of FreeBSD a binary was compiled for?

Robert Huff roberthuff at rcn.com
Wed Oct 26 07:59:33 PDT 2005


Andrew P. writes:
>  > 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 
>  
>  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.

	Curious.

huff@> file /usr/bin/man
/usr/bin/man: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD), for FreeBSD 7.0 (700003), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped
huff@> 


				Robert Huff



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