Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 16:10:20 -0700 (PDT) From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@monkeys.com> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/67236: file(1) does a poor job of recognizing Makefiles Message-ID: <200405272310.i4RNAKHH042222@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/67236; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@monkeys.com> To: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org> Cc: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org>, FreeBSD Gnats Submit <freebsd-gnats-submit@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@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?home | help
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