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Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 20:59:51 +0300
From: Yuri Pankov <yuri.pankov@gmail.com>
To: John Smith <lbalbalba@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Determine FreeBSD version of binary
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On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 06:01:40PM +0100, John Smith wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> 
> I was wondering if it was possible to determine for what version of
> FreeBSD a binary was compiled, purely by examining the binary?
> 
> 
> Any and all help and suggestions are greatly appreciated,
> 
> 
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> Thanks,
> 
> 
> john Smith

May be not entirely correct, but close:

ldd binary | grep libc.so

libc.so.4 - 4.x, libc.so.5 - 5.x, libc.so.6 - 6x, libc.so.7 - 7.x (and
8-CURRENT at the moment).


HTH,
Yuri