diff --git a/sysutils/file/Makefile b/sysutils/file/Makefile
index f748c85d0d58..f6e022a34390 100644
--- a/sysutils/file/Makefile
+++ b/sysutils/file/Makefile
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 #
 
 PORTNAME=	file
-PORTVERSION=	3.38
+PORTVERSION=	3.39
 CATEGORIES=	sysutils
 MASTER_SITES=	ftp://ftp.astron.com/pub/file/ \
 		ftp://ftp.gw.com/mirrors/pub/unix/file/ \
@@ -20,6 +20,9 @@ CONFIGURE_ARGS=	--enable-fsect-man5
 MAN1=		file.1
 MAN5=		magic.5
 
+# The rules below are required to suppress invocations of aclocal, automake,
+# autoconf and autoheader at `make build' and `make install'.
+
 post-extract:
 	${TOUCH} ${TOUCH_FLAGS} ${WRKSRC}/aclocal.m4
 	${TOUCH} ${TOUCH_FLAGS} ${WRKSRC}/Makefile.in
diff --git a/sysutils/file/distinfo b/sysutils/file/distinfo
index 890bac77445f..8080ce0aabaa 100644
--- a/sysutils/file/distinfo
+++ b/sysutils/file/distinfo
@@ -1 +1 @@
-MD5 (file-3.38.tar.gz) = 9d8a36724b8691c8248882a4cb76279c
+MD5 (file-3.39.tar.gz) = 9d5cf1fda3daf54ea9c5f7df113ebf6b