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Date:      Thu, 27 Oct 2005 12:20:16 -0700
From:      David Kirchner <dpk@dpk.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Which version of FreeBSD a binary was compiled for?
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On 10/27/05, Will Maier <willmaier@ml1.net> wrote:
> Must be -- some flag produces unique bits in the executables. I'm a
> little surprised there isn't (AFAICT) anything descriptive in
> file(1)'s manpage or /u/s/mi/magic that would explain the
> discrepancy. Didn't see anything in quick looks through gcc(1) or
> make(1), either.
>
> Weird.

It doesn't look like it's done in the magic file. Rather, it's
something built in to file itself. Check out around line 400 of
'readelf.c'.

This doesn't explain how it gets in to the binaries built, though.



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