From owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 28 05:16:28 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 201EB16A4CE for ; Fri, 28 May 2004 05:16:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from arthur.nitro.dk (port324.ds1-khk.adsl.cybercity.dk [212.242.113.79]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 454A243D39 for ; Fri, 28 May 2004 05:16:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from simon@arthur.nitro.dk) Received: by arthur.nitro.dk (Postfix, from userid 3000) id 66E4911866; Fri, 28 May 2004 14:15:40 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 14:15:39 +0200 From: "Simon L. Nielsen" To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" Message-ID: <20040528121539.GA1693@arthur.nitro.dk> References: <200405272144.i4RLiWep030847@freefall.freebsd.org> <79314.1085697496@monkeys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="cNdxnHkX5QqsyA0e" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <79314.1085697496@monkeys.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/67236: file(1) does a poor job of recognizing Makefiles X-BeenThere: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 12:16:28 -0000 --cNdxnHkX5QqsyA0e Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2004.05.27 15:38:16 -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: >=20 > In message <200405272144.i4RLiWep030847@freefall.freebsd.org>, you wrote: >=20 > >Synopsis: file(1) does a poor job of recognizing Makefiles > > > >State-Changed-From-To: open->closed > >State-Changed-By: simon > >State-Changed-When: Thu May 27 14:44:29 PDT 2004 > >State-Changed-Why:=20 > >File is externally maintained and FreeBSD does not make local > >modifications to it, so please take this up with the find developers. > >You can find file at ftp://ftp.astron.com/pub/file/. > >Note: there is a new version of find available, but I tested > >it and it does not do a better job of detecting makefiles. > > > >http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=3D67236 >=20 > 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) > command that is being distributed, at present, with reasonably recent > releases of FreeBSD (e.g. 5.2.1)... that is, file-3.41 (according to > the output of `file -v') is clearly obsolete and, more importantly, Edwin has responded to the most important parts, but I will just add a few more comments. I noticed that the file version on the base system was "old" which why I noted in the PR close mail, that there was a new version of file available (even though I for some reason wrote "find"), and that it also seemed to detect the few makefile's I tested as English text. As Edwin noted, there is a file(1) port so you can test a 4.X version. The Makefile detection is not specific to FreeBSD which is also why I think it's better to contact the file authors. I hope this makes it more clear that closing the PR wasn't meant as "Go away, we don't care", but rather that you have a much better chance of getting this fixed/improved by contacting the file(1) authors. --=20 Simon L. Nielsen FreeBSD Documentation Team --cNdxnHkX5QqsyA0e Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAty1rh9pcDSc1mlERAoDaAJ9Vi4UImGMVjlKonvJmQiHda6bOlgCgifQn l5SKnHV43j+h/1Hw+y3Q7no= =aigi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --cNdxnHkX5QqsyA0e--