libmagic files missing??

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Fri Sep 9 17:52:58 PDT 2005


On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 05:37:04PM -0700, Vizion wrote:

> checking for magic files in default path... not found
> configure: error: Please reinstall the libmagic distribution
> ===>  Script "configure" failed unexpectedly.
> Please report the problem to ale at FreeBSD.org [maintainer] and attach the
> "/usr/ports/sysutils/pecl-fileinfo/work/Fileinfo-1.0/config.log" including
> the output of the failure of your make command. Also, it might be a good idea
> to provide an overview of all packages installed on your system (e.g. an `ls
> /var/db/pkg`).
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop in /usr/ports/sysutils/pecl-fileinfo.
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop in /usr/ports/lang/php5-extensions.

As explained above, the config.log contains the necessary details to
debug this.  If you don't want to follow the advice and ask the
maintainer, either put that file online somewhere so as not to spam
the list, or post only the section that refers to libmagic.

Kris
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