Which version of FreeBSD a binary was compiled for?

Will Maier willmaier at ml1.net
Thu Oct 27 08:44:11 PDT 2005


On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 06:51:21AM -0700, Micah wrote:
> I have a 5.4 system, /do/ go into single user when upgrading, and
> file does /not/ report FreeBSD version.  I get the same output you
> do.  It would be nice to know why this works on some systems and
> not on others.

Consider diff'ing the /usr/share/misc/magic file from a system that
works and a system that doesn't work. I'd expect the difference to
be evident there.

It works find on all my machines, though.

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