libmagic

[Christopher Nehren]

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On 2005-03-29, Aaron Siegel scribbled these
curious markings:
> checking for magic.h... yes
> checking for magic_open in -lmagic... no
> configure: error: libmagic not found. Please install libmagic.

Have you checked config.log?

> I have copied magic.h from the source tree to  /usr/include. Is this a common 
> error?

Don't do that.

Best Regards,
Christopher Nehren
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