libmagic

[Chuck Robey]

Mike Edenfield wrote:
> Chuck Robey wrote:
> 
>> Aaron Siegel wrote:
> 
> 

> Good advice, in general, but may not help him here.  The file he's 
> looking for *is* part of the base system and *should* be in 
> /usr/include.  The real problem he needs to solve is, why isn't this 
> file getting installed on his system?  It's present on both my -CURRENT 
> and -STABLE systems, where it belongs:
> 
> kutulu at basement:/usr/src/lib/libmagic$ ls /usr/include/magic.h
> 4 -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  2785 Feb  3 11:02 /usr/include/magic.h
> 
> The header (part of the file utility, contrib/file) is the interface for 
> the libmagic library, again part of the base system:
> 
> kutulu at basement:/usr/src/lib/libmagic$ ls /usr/lib/libmagic.so.*
>  52 -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  52848 Mar  2 22:30 /usr/lib/libmagic.so.1

OK, you talked me into taking a look, and from the logs, looks like the 
magic.h installation begin as of November of last year.  Maybe his 
system is that old?

> 
> --Mike
> 
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