Dear all, bsd.commands.mk has the following:
FILE?= /usr/bin/file
which is unfortunate, given that ${FILE} is used in several thousand
ports, generally as a loop control variable for iterating through a list
of files. In fact, I can only find about 8 places where the file(1)
program is intended.
This obvious conflict of meanings seems pretty undesirable to me. Am I
missing something? Is there any reason to keep the status quo rather
than changing the bsd.commands.mk variable to FILE_CMD and making the
corresponding changes in those 8 places?
Cheers,
Matthew
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