Re: [PATCH] distro: Add file.

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> skribis:

> Am Donnerstag, 17. Januar 2013 schrieb Ludovic Courtès:
>> Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> skribis:
>> > Patch for "file" attached. Strangely, it uses "file" in its configure
>> > script, but this does not seem to be crucial:
>> >     case `/usr/bin/file conftest.o` in
>> I think this bit is automatically added by Autoconf everywhere.  Nothing
>> to worry about, it seems.
>
> I added it as an input to libtiff. I suppose this is the right thing to do, 
> or should I drop it there as well?

Well, since /usr/bin/file is hard-coded, adding ‘file’ as an input would
not be enough: you’d also need to patch ‘configure’.

However, this /usr/bin/file stanza in ‘configure’ scripts doesn’t seem
to have any practical impact since we’ve been building without it for
ages.  So I would just keep ignoring it.  :-)

Ludo’.