Re: libtool assumes that "file" is in /usr/bin

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2008-05-07 22:40:00 -0500, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> Libtool.m4 uses /usr/bin/file in operating system specific cases which  
> are usually very well tested.  It is very odd that this Debian system  
> does not include /usr/bin/file.  Maybe the user's Debian system is  
> altered or broken?

The priority of the "file" package in Debian is "standard", not
"required". Thus it can be removed (and perhaps not necessarily
automatically installed in some cases), and neither gcc nor make
depends on it.

And the GNU Coding Standards don't seem to require "file". Should
anything be done about that?

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