Some binary builds are being made without any inclusion of version information.
Ex: the spanish Wiz port, and a build on Veket Linux (a chinese variant of
Puppy Linux, http://www.seadvd.com/redirect.php?tid=136772&goto=lastpost)
It can make it difficult to determine the approximative source version number.
Maybe we should use SCCS markings: strings starting with the magic value
"@(#)", compiled into the executable. The command 'what', on Linux
(http://linux.die.net/man/1/what), directly locates these strings in any
binary file. So you can examine even a binary that wasn't compiled for your
platform. If 'what' is not available, you can use a binary editor.
Original issue reported on code.google.com by yrizoud on 23 Mar 2010 at 11:16
Original issue reported on code.google.com by
yrizoud
on 23 Mar 2010 at 11:16