Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 21:10:26 -0700 (PDT) From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/67236: file(1) does a poor job of recognizing Makefiles Message-ID: <200405280410.i4S4AQVP085233@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/67236; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@monkeys.com> Cc: 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 21:05:22 -0700 On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 04:51:51PM -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > Edwin Groothuis says that I should ask you why the latest version of > the file(1) command (4.09) is not presently imported into the FreeBSD > base system. (See below.) Version 4.x is built in a rather different way than 3.x. Given the PITA in the 3.x->4.y change, I haven't seen a good reason to do it yet. That said, there may soon be a good reason to have libmagic, so I'll have to do it sometime. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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