[CentOS] Mysterious versioning reported by file command

[John Stanley]

On Sat, 2012-05-26 at 17:21 -0600, Frank Cox wrote:

> Ok, then where does it come from, since it's not the current kernel version and
> it's not the elfutils version?  gcc somehow finds that number and inserts it
> into the binary.  Where did it find it and why is that number not the same as
> the other stuff, notably the kernel, since it appears to be a kernel version
> number?  Just not the current kernel version number.

An educated guess would be because the C and C++ ABI is backwards
compatable with el5.  Check it out...build the code on el5 and it should
run under el6. For el5 you need the gcc44 update package.


John