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On 16-05-2007 18:01:18 +0200, Elias Pipping wrote: |
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> On May 16, 2007, at 9:39 AM, Fabian Groffen wrote: |
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>>> There's one thing I should mention that the file command of prefixed |
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>>> cannot tell hello64 is an executable: |
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>>> % $EPREFIX/usr/bin/file hello64 |
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>>> hello64: data |
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>> GNU coreutils apparently isn't able to identify this (yet). Not much we |
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>> can do about this, unless you know how to patch it to support it. I'm |
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>> not much into file formats/magic headers myself, so I have no clue. |
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> Actually, GNU file is not related to coreutils at all, it's a separate |
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> tool.[1] |
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You're right. I guess it was late... err no, it was (too) early. |
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> Apple modified file heavily to make it work with universal binaries. The |
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> (15!) patches are freely available[2], they're diffed against 4.10, though |
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> (a lot has changed since then, especially related to universal binaries). |
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> See below for what the patches result in. Although I don't have a 64bit |
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> binary I could test it on, I guess Apple's file would recognize it. |
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Interesting. Anyone objections on including them in our tree? |
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(nice to have a bit of this knowledge around!) |
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> $ dirs |
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> /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk/usr/lib |
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> $ ~/Gentoo/usr/bin/file libncurses.5.4.dylib |
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> libncurses.5.4.dylib: Mach-O fat file with 4 architectures |
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> $ /usr/bin/file libncurses.5.4.dylib |
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> libncurses.5.4.dylib: Mach-O universal binary with 4 architectures |
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> libncurses.5.4.dylib (for architecture ppc): Mach-O dynamically linked |
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> shared library stub ppc |
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> libncurses.5.4.dylib (for architecture ppc64): Mach-O 64-bit dynamically |
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> linked shared library stub ppc64 |
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> libncurses.5.4.dylib (for architecture i386): Mach-O dynamically linked |
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> shared library stub i386 |
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> libncurses.5.4.dylib (for architecture x86_64): Mach-O 64-bit dynamically |
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> linked shared library stub x86_64 |
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> $ |
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> [1] ftp://ftp.astron.com/pub/file |
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> [2] |
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> http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/10.4.9.x86/file-6.2/patches/ |
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Fabian Groffen |
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Gentoo on a different level |
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