Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 21:40:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/67236: file(1) does a poor job of recognizing Makefiles Message-ID: <200405280440.i4S4eNYn086091@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/67236; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org> To: David O'Brien <obrien@freebsd.org> Cc: FreeBSD Gnats Submit <freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: bin/67236: file(1) does a poor job of recognizing Makefiles Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 14:29:48 +1000 On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 09:10:26PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > 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. A good reason might be that 4.0.9 properly interprets the ELF information in the 5.x executables. Try "file /bin/sh" on a -current machine and see which version of FreeBSD it thinks it is. Also see bin/63830 for a patch against file 3.x. Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.mavetju.org edwin@mavetju.org | Weblog: http://weblog.barnet.com.au/edwin/
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