On the usage of ${FILE}

[Matthew Seaman]

Dear all,

bsd.commands.mk has the following:

FILE?=          /usr/bin/file

which is unfortunate, given that ${FILE} is used in several thousand
ports, generally as a loop control variable for iterating through a list
of files. In fact, I can only find about 8 places where the file(1)
program is intended.

This obvious conflict of meanings seems pretty undesirable to me.  Am I
missing something?  Is there any reason to keep the status quo rather
than changing the bsd.commands.mk variable to FILE_CMD and making the
corresponding changes in those 8 places?

	Cheers,

	Matthew

-- 
Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil.
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