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Timestamp:
Jun 16, 2014, 11:27:21 PM (11 years ago)
Author:
Chris Staub <chris@…>
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More detailed explanatory text in cross-tools File page. Thanks Martin Ward for the reminder

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    2323    <title>Installation of File</title>
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    25     <para>Here we install a native <command>file</command> program that can run
    26     on the host system, as this program is needed by Binutils.</para>
     25    <para>One method that <command>file</command> uses for identifying a given
     26    file is to run <quote>magic tests</quote>, where it compares the file's
     27    contents to data in <quote>magic files</quote>, which contain information
     28    about a number of standard file formats. When File is compiled, it will run
     29    <command>file -C</command> to combine the information from the
     30    magic files in its source tree into a single <filename>magic.mgc</filename>
     31    file, which it will use after it is installed. When we build File in
     32    <xref linkend="chapter-temp-system"/>, it will be cross-compiled, so it
     33    will not be able to run the <command>file</command> program that it just
     34    built, which means that we need one that will run on the host system.</para>
    2735
    2836    <para>Prepare File for compilation:</para>
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