From owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 27 15:51:02 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9886916A4CF for ; Thu, 27 May 2004 15:51:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FEF243D41 for ; Thu, 27 May 2004 15:51:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (gnats@localhost [127.0.0.1]) i4RMoOTw037906 for ; Thu, 27 May 2004 15:50:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i4RMoOxx037905; Thu, 27 May 2004 15:50:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 15:50:24 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200405272250.i4RMoOxx037905@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org From: Edwin Groothuis 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 Reply-To: Edwin Groothuis List-Id: Bug reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 22:51:02 -0000 The following reply was made to PR bin/67236; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Edwin Groothuis To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" Cc: "Simon L. Nielsen" , FreeBSD Gnats Submit 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 -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.mavetju.org edwin@mavetju.org | Weblog: http://weblog.barnet.com.au/edwin/