bin/67236: file(1) does a poor job of recognizing Makefiles

[Ronald F. Guilmette]

The following reply was made to PR bin/67236; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg at monkeys.com>
To: Edwin Groothuis <edwin at mavetju.org>
Cc: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon at FreeBSD.org>,
	FreeBSD Gnats Submit <freebsd-gnats-submit at freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: bin/67236: file(1) does a poor job of recognizing Makefiles 
Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 16:09:15 -0700

 In message <20040527224948.GA2148 at k7.mavetju>, you wrote:
 
 >On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 03:38:16PM -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
 >> Excuse me, but it would appear that your suggestion that I take up
 >> this issue with the (external) maintainer of file(1) may be impractical
 >> for this simple reason that the specific version of the file(1)
 >
 >I found the maintainer of file(1) to be pretty tolerant regarding
 >this. I have submitted him a patch for file(1) to recognized the
 >FreeBSD ELF version handling for 5.x binaries against the file(1)
 >from 5.2.1 which is version 3.41.
 >
 >He has incorperated it in the 4.0.9 version, while the layout of
 >the source was completely different.
 >
 >Edwin
 >
 >> Would it be possible for the FreeBSD maintainers to upgrade the version
 >> of file(1) that is being distributed with FreeBSD to version 4.09 which,
 >> according to the information above, seems to be the now current version?
 >
 >Check ports/sysutils/file, it's there. Just not in the base system.
 
 Would it be impertinent of me to ask why the latest version of file(1)
 is not in the base system?