From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 27 18:52:00 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 9CC6216A41F for ; Thu, 27 Oct 2005 18:52:00 +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 114EC43D46 for ; Thu, 27 Oct 2005 18:51:59 +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 5A75DCD726D for ; Thu, 27 Oct 2005 14:51:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.151]) by frontend1.internal (MEProxy); Thu, 27 Oct 2005 14:51:58 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: 06AKWvXJIe3gtlZRr8v5N83TV2HXWEszI5TTnRrb9Dl0 1130439117 Received: from merkur (host-66-202-74-42.choiceone.net [66.202.74.42]) by frontend2.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA28257070D for ; Thu, 27 Oct 2005 14:51:56 -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; Thu, 27 Oct 2005 13:51:58 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 13:51:57 -0500 From: Will Maier To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20051027185157.GV29508@localdomain> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <17247.39311.203645.265116@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <200510262115.48144.krinklyfig@comcast.net> <4360DB59.7010900@ywave.com> <20051027154408.GS29508@localdomain> <43611E22.5030408@ywave.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <43611E22.5030408@ywave.com> 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: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 18:52:00 -0000 On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 11:36:18AM -0700, Micah wrote: > In other words, it's not file that broken, but /every/ executable > on the broken machine is broken. Now why would that be? A > compiler flag or something? 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. -- 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 ]------------------*