Which version of FreeBSD a binary was compiled for?
Andrew P.
infofarmer at gmail.com
Wed Oct 26 08:18:28 PDT 2005
On 10/26/05, Robert Huff <roberthuff at rcn.com> wrote:
>
> 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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I tried both versions of file (base system and ports)
on 6.0 RC1, none showed any info about that
/usr/bin/man (or any other system binary I tried).
On my firewall (5.4) it works.
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