### this is not a script but an step-by-step howto
exit 1

### base 1.4.1
### download
cd /usr/src
wget ftp://ftp.astron.com/pub/file/file-4.21.tar.gz

### extract
tar xzf file-4.21.tar.gz
cd file-4.21

### build
export CFLAGS='-O2 -march=i486 -fomit-frame-pointer'
./configure \
--target=i486-pc-linux-gnu \
--prefix=/usr \
--bindir=/usr/bin \
--sbindir=/usr/sbin \
--sysconfdir=/etc \
--datadir=/usr/share/misc
make

### install
make DESTDIR=/tmp/file install
rm -rf /tmp/file/usr/man
strip -R .note -R .comment /tmp/file/usr/bin/*
grep -vF '100 regex/c =^\\s*call\\s+rxfuncadd.*sysloadfu OS/2 REXX batch file text' /tmp/file/usr/share/misc/file/magic > /tmp/file/usr/share/misc/file/magic.new
grep -vF '100 regex/c =^\\s*say\ [' /tmp/file/usr/share/misc/file/magic.new > /tmp/file/usr/share/misc/file/magic
rm -f /tmp/file/usr/share/misc/file/magic.new
cd /tmp/file/usr/share/misc/file
file -C -m magic
file -C -m magic.mime