From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 26 03:05:38 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77FAA16A41F for ; Wed, 26 Oct 2005 03:05:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from willmaier@ml1.net) Received: from out3.smtp.messagingengine.com (out3.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 110EC43D45 for ; Wed, 26 Oct 2005 03:05:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from willmaier@ml1.net) Received: from frontend1.internal (mysql-sessions.internal [10.202.2.149]) by frontend1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CED4CD53E9 for ; Tue, 25 Oct 2005 23:05:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.151]) by frontend1.internal (MEProxy); Tue, 25 Oct 2005 23:05:36 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: toUmEFz+M/GnaZWSNBy1eyp4JDDmWwsxK0xt/jRVfch1 1130295932 Received: from merkur (host-66-202-74-42.choiceone.net [66.202.74.42]) by frontend2.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4114570394 for ; Tue, 25 Oct 2005 23:05:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: by merkur (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1000 (using TLSv1/SSLv3 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) willmaier@ml1.net; Tue, 25 Oct 2005 22:05:41 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 22:05:37 -0500 From: Will Maier To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20051026030537.GV18987@localdomain> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i Subject: Re: Which version of FreeBSD a binary was compiled for? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 03:05:38 -0000 On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 02:24:54AM +0400, Andrew P. wrote: > How to tell? Apart from trying to launch it on different versions > without COMPAT* in the kernel? file (1) > One can always carefully examine the output of ldd, readelf and > other such tools, but that requires much knowledge and a small lab > with all kinds of BSD's set up. Is there a better way? | ~ % file /usr/local/bin/screen | /usr/local/bin/screen: setuid ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel | 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD), for FreeBSD 5.4, dynamically linked | (uses shared libs), stripped | ~ % uname -a | FreeBSD vger.caenn.wisc.edu 5.4-RELEASE-p8 FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p8 | #1: Tue Oct 11 20:19:50 CDT 2005 | root@myhost.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/VGER20050925 i386 -- o--------------------------{ Will Maier }--------------------------o | jabber:..wcmaier@jabber.ccc.de | email:..........wcmaier@ml1.net | | \.........wcmaier@cae.wisc.edu | \..........wcmaier@cae.wisc.edu | *------------------[ BSD Unix: Live Free or Die ]------------------*