file

Configure

Do not “try to look inside compressed files”
--disable-static is used by default
--disable-elf-core breaks build
Cross-compiling file depends on the same version of itself (and on libmagic); magic/Makefile.am mentions that this is a bug that may eventually be fixed, by building both a native file and a cross file and compiling the magic database with the native one
No need to symlink against libpthread when building against musl libc