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 16:52:26 -0700

 In message <20040527232011.GK2165 at k7.mavetju>, you wrote:
 
 >On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 04:09:15PM -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
 >> >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?
 >
 >obrien@ imported the 3.41 version, you could ask him to import the
 >newest version. Or ask him why he hasn't done it yet.
 
 
 OK, I have sent him the question.