trev@fbsd [/home/trev] $ file `which fpc`
/usr/local/bin/fpc: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (FreeBSD), statically linked, stripped
trev@fbsd [/home/trev] $ brandelf `which fpc`
File '/usr/local/bin/fpc' is of brand 'FreeBSD' (9).
trev@fbsd [/home/trev] $ file `which ppcx64`
/usr/local/bin/ppcx64: symbolic link to ../lib/fpc/3.0.4/ppcx64
trev@fbsd [/home/trev] $ file /usr/local/lib/fpc/3.0.4/ppcx64
/usr/local/lib/fpc/3.0.4/ppcx64: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (FreeBSD), statically linked, stripped
trev@fbsd [/home/trev] $ brandelf /usr/local/lib/fpc/3.0.4/ppcx64
File '/usr/local/lib/fpc/3.0.4/ppcx64' is of brand 'FreeBSD' (9).
No need for brandelf, 3.0.4 was a locally compiled fpc from the FreeBSD ports collection which came with this bootstrap compiler binary:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 1106 493 3.2M 28 Nov 2017 ppcx64-3.0.4-freebsd
Hmmm.