Location of "file" is hard coded

2015-09-02 Thread John Frankish
Hi, I'm not sure if this is the correct place to report this, but the configure scripts produced by autoconf/automake assume "file" is located at /usr/bin/file and report it missing otherwise. I have file at /usr/local/bin/file - shouldn't the configure script search $PATH to find "file"? Regard

Re: Location of "file" is hard coded

2015-09-02 Thread Eric Blake
On 09/02/2015 02:06 AM, John Frankish wrote: > Hi, > > I'm not sure if this is the correct place to report this, but the configure > scripts produced by autoconf/automake assume "file" is located at > /usr/bin/file and report it missing otherwise. Running this command in both autoconf.git and aut

Re: Location of "file" is hard coded

2015-09-02 Thread Paul Eggert
John Frankish wrote: the configure scripts produced by autoconf/automake assume "file" is located at /usr/bin/file and report it missing otherwise. Can you show us how to reproduce the bug, by supplying a configure.ac and a way to invoke autoconf and configure? I'm not seeing it in my configu

RE: Location of "file" is hard coded

2015-09-02 Thread John Frankish
> > Hi, > > > > I'm not sure if this is the correct place to report this, but the > > configure scripts produced by autoconf/automake assume "file" is > > located at /usr/bin/file and report it missing otherwise. > > Running this command in both autoconf.git and automake.git produces no hits: >

Re: Location of "file" is hard coded

2015-09-02 Thread Paul Eggert
John Frankish wrote: I see it in almost every package I compile, in this case I took the first one I found, NetworkManager-1.0.4, which gives: That use of /usr/bin/file comes from NetworkManager-1.0.4/m4/libtool.m4, which is not part of Autoconf or Automake per se. I suggest reporting the bu

RE: Location of "file" is hard coded

2015-09-02 Thread John Frankish
> > I see it in almost every package I compile, in this case I took the > > first one I found, NetworkManager-1.0.4, which gives: > > That use of /usr/bin/file comes from NetworkManager-1.0.4/m4/libtool.m4, > which is not part of Autoconf or Automake per se. > I suggest reporting the bug to the L