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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>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Determine FreeBSD version of binary
Message-ID:  <20071108175951.GC18314@darklight.org.ru>
In-Reply-To: <6dcf0dbc0711080901g49043bb1u1a8e38cfacbde15c@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <6dcf0dbc0711080901g49043bb1u1a8e38cfacbde15c@mail.gmail.com>

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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,
> 
> 
> 
> 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



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