[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Use "legacy mode" for `file` on Mac OSX

[Aaron Griffin]

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 2:39 PM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Sebastian Nowicki <sebnow at gmail.com> wrote:
>> For some reason `file` on Mac OSX has different arguments than BSD and
>> Linux; -i no longer prints out the mime strings. With the environment
>> variable COMMAND_MODE set to "legacy", `file` behaves more like it does
>> on Linux and BSD, i.e., `file -i` prints the mime type.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Nowicki <sebnow at gmail.com>
>> ---
>>  scripts/makepkg.sh.in |    2 ++
>>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/scripts/makepkg.sh.in b/scripts/makepkg.sh.in
>> index 91b05f1..aa0b99e 100644
>> --- a/scripts/makepkg.sh.in
>> +++ b/scripts/makepkg.sh.in
>> @@ -32,6 +32,8 @@
>>  # gettext initialization
>>  export TEXTDOMAIN='pacman'
>>  export TEXTDOMAINDIR='@localedir@'
>> +# necessary to achieve consistent behavior for `file` on Mac OSX
>> +export COMMAND_MODE=legacy
> Use '' (quotes) like every other variable here, but otherwise looks
> fine. I think this is the best solution to the problem.
> And concise is fine:
> # file -i is broken on Mac OSX unless legacy mode is set
> or at least I consider it broken. :)
>>
>>  myver='@PACKAGE_VERSION@'
>>  confdir='@sysconfdir@'
>> --
> Acked-by: Dan McGee <dan at archlinux.org>

Ack to Dan's comments.
Acked-by: Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com>