Date: Sat, 11 May 1996 16:58:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, FreeBSD-Ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Object files/formats Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960511165809.6867B-100000@maryann.eng.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <199605111844.UAA01640@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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On Sat, 11 May 1996, J Wunsch wrote: > As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > > tclIO.o: NetBSD/i386 position independent object file not stripped > > > > They all say that. File's magic information has misidentified our > > object files for as long as I can remember now - I noted this quite > > a few months back myself, but so far nobody has done the hacking on > > /etc/magic necessary to fix it. :) > > C'mon, they have been identified as ``PDP-11 pure executable not > stripped'' previously. :-) > > Do other poeple also feel like me in that /etc/magic should better be > moved to /usr/share/misc/? It's nothing to do with machine-dependant > configuration. (Unlike termcap, i don't think there's anything else > than /usr/bin/file actually using this file at all.) That seems reasonable to me. I can't imagine anyone doing local changes to magic ... it doesn't seem to want to be in /etc. > > -- > cheers, J"org > > joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE > Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) > ========================================================================== Chuck Robey chuckr@eng.umd.edu, I run FreeBSD-current on n3lxx + Journey2 Three Accounts for the Super-users in the sky, Seven for the Operators in their halls of fame, Nine for Ordinary Users doomed to crie, One for the Illegal Cracker with his evil game In the Domains of Internet where the data lie. One Account to rule them all, One Account to watch them, One Account to make them all and in the network bind them.
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