libmagic: format `(Hash, version %d, native byte-order)' does not match with `%lu'

[vergus@…]

Using the file command provided by the port 'file' has not been working for a while now. It only ever produces runtime errors like the following:

$ file /tmp/testmldbm
/tmp/testmldbm: ERROR: line 46: softmagic.c, 481: format `(Hash, version %d, native byte-order)' does not match with `%lu'

However, downloading and building the same version source (5.18) works as expected:

$ ./src/file -m magic/magic.mgc /tmp/testmldbm
/tmp/testmldbm: Berkeley DB 1.85 (Hash, version 2, native byte-order)

As does the older version (5.04) provided by OS X in /usr/bin:

$ /usr/bin/file /tmp/testmldbm
/tmp/testmldbm: Berkeley DB 1.85 (Hash, version 2, native byte-order)

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

I haven't seen any problems with the file port recently (the latest version fixed the regex errors we were seeing before), but perhaps it's specific to this type of file your checking. How do I produce a file like your "testmldbm" to test with?

[danielluke (Daniel J. Luke)]

I also see this with macports file vs the system provided file on BDB 1.85 hash files (like my local copy of non-macports spamassassin uses). I'm attaching a small test file which was created with the following program:

#!/opt/local/bin/perl

use DB_File;

my %hash;

my $X = tie %hash, 'DB_File', "test_file";

$X->put("foo", "bar");
$X->sync;

It also has the same issue:

% /opt/local/bin/file test_file 
test_file: ERROR: line 46: softmagic.c, 481: format `(Hash, version %d, native byte-order)' does not match with `%lu'
% /usr/bin/file test_file 
test_file: Berkeley DB 1.85 (Hash, version 2, native byte-order)

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

The patch I was asked to apply to fix some problems in the 5.18 release seems to have introduced this new problem.

[vergus@…]

file 5.19 was released 3 days ago: ​ftp://ftp.astron.com/pub/file/

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

I will update the port when I get a chance but I'm quite busy this week.

[mp@…]

Cc Me!

[mp@…]

patch to upgrade sysutils/file to 5.19

[mp@…]

The added patch attachment:file.diff​ solves the issue. Tested on Mavericks.

patch-post-518.diff can be removed.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Thanks. r122222.