Pode valer uma chance, dependendo de qual programa. Alguns programas terão isso compilado como informação e acessível por algum tipo de chamada de versão (-V, --version, -Version, etc). Você pode encontrar qualquer subconjunto desses itens que você está procurando (incluindo o conjunto nulo). Aqui está um exemplo particularmente frutífero, Perl 5:
$ perl -V
Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 26 subversion 2) configuration:
Platform:
osname=linux
osvers=4.15.15-1-arch
archname=x86_64-linux-thread-multi
uname='linux flo-64 4.15.15-1-arch #1 smp preempt sat mar 31 23:59:25 utc 2018 x86_64 gnulinux '
config_args='-des -Dusethreads -Duseshrplib -Doptimize=-march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fstack-protector-strong -fno-plt -Dprefix=/usr -Dvendorprefix=/usr -Dprivlib=/usr/share/perl5/core_perl -Darchlib=/usr/lib/perl5/5.26/core_perl -Dsitelib=/usr/share/perl5/site_perl -Dsitearch=/usr/lib/perl5/5.26/site_perl -Dvendorlib=/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl -Dvendorarch=/usr/lib/perl5/5.26/vendor_perl -Dscriptdir=/usr/bin/core_perl -Dsitescript=/usr/bin/site_perl -Dvendorscript=/usr/bin/vendor_perl -Dinc_version_list=none -Dman1ext=1perl -Dman3ext=3perl -Dcccdlflags='-fPIC' -Dlddlflags=-shared -Wl,-O1,--sort-common,--as-needed,-z,relro,-z,now -Dldflags=-Wl,-O1,--sort-common,--as-needed,-z,relro,-z,now'
hint=recommended
useposix=true
d_sigaction=define
useithreads=define
usemultiplicity=define
use64bitint=define
use64bitall=define
uselongdouble=undef
usemymalloc=n
default_inc_excludes_dot=define
bincompat5005=undef
Compiler:
cc='cc'
ccflags ='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -fwrapv -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fstack-protector-strong -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2'
optimize='-march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fstack-protector-strong -fno-plt'
cppflags='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -fwrapv -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fstack-protector-strong -I/usr/local/include'
ccversion=''
gccversion='7.3.1 20180312'
gccosandvers=''
intsize=4
longsize=8
ptrsize=8
doublesize=8
byteorder=12345678
doublekind=3
d_longlong=define
longlongsize=8
d_longdbl=define
longdblsize=16
longdblkind=3
ivtype='long'
ivsize=8
nvtype='double'
nvsize=8
Off_t='off_t'
lseeksize=8
alignbytes=8
prototype=define
Linker and Libraries:
ld='cc'
ldflags ='-Wl,-O1,--sort-common,--as-needed,-z,relro,-z,now -fstack-protector-strong -L/usr/local/lib'
libpth=/usr/local/lib /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/7.3.1/include-fixed /usr/lib /lib/../lib /usr/lib/../lib /lib /lib64 /usr/lib64
libs=-lpthread -lnsl -lgdbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lc -lgdbm_compat
perllibs=-lpthread -lnsl -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lc
libc=libc-2.26.so
so=so
useshrplib=true
libperl=libperl.so
gnulibc_version='2.26'
Dynamic Linking:
dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs
dlext=so
d_dlsymun=undef
ccdlflags='-Wl,-E -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib/perl5/5.26/core_perl/CORE'
cccdlflags='-fPIC'
lddlflags='-shared -Wl,-O1,--sort-common,--as-needed,-z,relro,-z,now -L/usr/local/lib -fstack-protector-strong'
Characteristics of this binary (from libperl):
Compile-time options:
HAS_TIMES
MULTIPLICITY
PERLIO_LAYERS
PERL_COPY_ON_WRITE
PERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV
PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT
PERL_MALLOC_WRAP
PERL_OP_PARENT
PERL_PRESERVE_IVUV
USE_64_BIT_ALL
USE_64_BIT_INT
USE_ITHREADS
USE_LARGE_FILES
USE_LOCALE
USE_LOCALE_COLLATE
USE_LOCALE_CTYPE
USE_LOCALE_NUMERIC
USE_LOCALE_TIME
USE_PERLIO
USE_PERL_ATOF
USE_REENTRANT_API
Built under linux
Compiled at Apr 18 2018 22:21:20
%ENV:
PERL5LIB="/home/jhuber/perl5/lib/perl5"
PERL_LOCAL_LIB_ROOT="/home/jhuber/perl5"
PERL_MB_OPT="--install_base "/home/jhuber/perl5""
PERL_MM_OPT="INSTALL_BASE=/home/jhuber/perl5"
@INC:
/home/jhuber/perl5/lib/perl5/x86_64-linux-thread-multi
/home/jhuber/perl5/lib/perl5
/usr/lib/perl5/5.26/site_perl
/usr/share/perl5/site_perl
/usr/lib/perl5/5.26/vendor_perl
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl
/usr/lib/perl5/5.26/core_perl
/usr/share/perl5/core_perl