[MacPorts] #31260: root 5.30.01 configure failure when file port is installed and xorg-libX11 is universal

[MacPorts]

#31260: root 5.30.01 configure failure when file port is installed and xorg-libX11
is universal
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 Reporter:  macsforever2000@…             |       Owner:  jonesc@…                
     Type:  defect                        |      Status:  new                     
 Priority:  Normal                        |   Milestone:                          
Component:  ports                         |     Version:  2.0.3                   
 Keywords:                                |        Port:  root                    
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Comment(by ryandesign@…):

 Replying to [comment:13 jonesc@…]:
 > It is just in this case I think the ROOT devs are not being that
 outrageous in assuming the file version they get running 'file', so found
 via $PATH, is one that is able to digest binaries found on mac systems...

 And this will unfortunately not be the case if that `file` was installed
 by the user using MacPorts, Fink, Homebrew, or compiled from source. Only
 Apple's specially-modified `file` understands universal binaries.

 > If MacPorts chooses to provide a version which is broken, for whatever
 reasons that might be, then that is MacPorts problem and not roots. What
 exactly does the file version 5.8 provide, that version 5.03 doesn't, that
 is worth this pain ?

 I haven't checked their ChangeLog.

 > Your patch I think is the only realistic way forward.

 May I commit it?

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