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Section 3 - Temporary Tools

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File

Name: File
Summary: A tool to determine the type of a file from heuristics
License: BSD 2-Clause
Version: 5.46
URL: http://ftp.astrom.com/pub/file/file-5.46.tar.xz

Pre-Build

Unfortunately, File requires being built twice to ensure the “magic” signatures files are generated correctly. To do the first-pass build, run the following commands inside the unpacked source tree:

mkdir build
pushd build
    ../configure --libdir=/usr/lib64  \
                 --disable-bzlib      \
                 --disable-libseccomp \
                 --disable-xzlib      \
                 --disable-zlib
    make
popd

Configuration

To configure File for install into the build root, run the following command:

./configure             \
    --prefix=/usr       \
    --libdir=/usr/lib64 \
    --host=$BRFS_TARGET \
    --build=$BRFS_HOST

Compilation and Installation

To compile File, run the following command:

make FILE_COMPILE=$(pwd)/build/src/file

Finally, to install File into the build tree, run the following command:

make DESTDIR=$BRFS install

More details about this package is covered later in the core system build.

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