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

[Edwin Groothuis]

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

From: Edwin Groothuis <edwin at mavetju.org>
To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg at monkeys.com>
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: Fri, 28 May 2004 08:49:48 +1000

 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.
 
 Edwin
 
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