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Date:      Wed, 26 Oct 2005 19:18:08 +0400
From:      "Andrew P." <infofarmer@gmail.com>
To:        Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Which version of FreeBSD a binary was compiled for?
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On 10/26/05, Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> wrote:
>
> Andrew P. writes:
> >  > 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), stripped
> >
> >  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.
>
>         Curious.
>
> huff@> file /usr/bin/man
> /usr/bin/man: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD)=
, for FreeBSD 7.0 (700003), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped
> huff@>
>
>
>                                 Robert Huff
>
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I tried both versions of file (base system and ports)
on 6.0 RC1, none showed any info about that
/usr/bin/man (or any other system binary I tried).

On my firewall (5.4) it works.



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