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Date:      Wed, 26 Oct 2005 11:27:02 +0400
From:      "Andrew P." <infofarmer@gmail.com>
To:        "Michael C. Shultz" <ringworm01@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Which version of FreeBSD a binary was compiled for?
Message-ID:  <cb5206420510260027v55b488e0qeda727cc3dd633f7@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200510260021.21594.ringworm01@gmail.com>
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On 10/26/05, Michael C. Shultz <ringworm01@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 October 2005 00:01, Andrew P. wrote:
> > On 10/26/05, Will Maier <willmaier@ml1.net> wrote:
> > > 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)
> >
> > I don't mean to push it, but how file would ever help
> > me to know subj?
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> Here is an example:
>
> 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), strip=
ped
>
> -Mike
>

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.

Sorry and thanks.



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