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sr #110550: File expected to be at /usr/bin/file, isn't on ChromeOS

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Submitted:  Sun 17 Oct 2021 04:47:52 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  None Priority:  5 - Normal
Severity:  3 - Normal Status:  Done
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  growpotkin
Originator Email:  -email is unavailable- Open/Closed:  Closed
Operating System:  GNU/Linux
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Sun 17 Oct 2021 05:08:39 PM UTC, comment #1: 

I actually just submitted a PR for this issue that you can probably use.

savannah.gnu.org/patch/?10113

Hopefully this helps.

Alex Ameen <growpotkin>
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Sun 17 Oct 2021 04:47:52 AM UTC, original submission:  

I'm a developer for Chromebrew, a package manager for ChromeOS.

We've had a problem with most all configure scripts: `file` is expected at `/usr/bin/file`, but ChromeOS doesn't ship with `file`, so we have to provide it at `/usr/local/bin/file`. `./configure` scripts generated with `autoconf` are unaware of this and, instead of looking for the location of `file`, raise an error:

./configure: line 6712: /usr/bin/file: No such file or directory

This particular error is an example from the latest version of `libsigsegv`

I thought this was an `autoconf` bug, hence the bug report filed here but as it turns out, this is trickling down from `libtool`, specifically the files `ltmain.sh` and `libtool.m4`

Autoconf and libtool are both at latest versions (2.71 and 2.4.6 respectively)

As I've never reported a bug of this type, I don't know what other information would be helpful (logs, etc.), so please don't hesitate to let me know.

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