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From: | Bob Friesenhahn |
Subject: | bug#17840: [PATCH] libtool: Use 'file' instead of '/usr/bin/file' on GNU systems. |
Date: | Tue, 24 Jun 2014 08:35:30 -0500 (CDT) |
User-agent: | Alpine 2.01 (GSO 1266 2009-07-14) |
On Mon, 23 Jun 2014, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
Hello, The patch below changes occurrences of ‘/usr/bin/file’ to just ‘file’. The impetus is that on systems using GNU Guix, NixOS, GoboLinux, and others, the ‘file’ command is not available as /usr/bin/file, so it must instead be taken from $PATH. (I conservatively left ‘/usr/bin/file’ for more centralized systems such as BSD, IRIX, etc. where it’s more likely to be a valid command.)
Were you able to re-test on all of the impacted platforms?The reason for the hard-coded path is because there are a number of different 'file' programs and libtool expects particular output from the 'file' program that it uses. If the 'file' encountered via PATH is not the same as the common one available as ‘/usr/bin/file’ on GNU systems, then there would be a problem.
Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn address@hidden, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
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