Re: MAGIC might be a bad name

[Gary V. Vaughan]

On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 08:34:37PM +0200, Marc Espie wrote:
> I've run into trouble getting correct results out of file on an old version
> of libtool. 
> 
> Checking the development source, I see the problem still exists:
> 
> all BSD versions of files do heed MAGIC, as an environment variable that
> says where /usr/bin/file should take its magic.
> 
> Ouch.
> 
> So, using it to store file name breaks the whole thing. It is still
> possible to work around this by setting MAGIC to 'env -i file' and
> similar thingies, but this is a gotcha.
> 
> It ought to be possible to use another name instead...

Good call.

Consider it done =)O|

Cheers,
        Gary.
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