From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 31 19:33:52 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA44A16A4D5 for ; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 19:33:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: from april.chuckr.org (april.chuckr.org [66.92.151.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A3CC43D66 for ; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 19:33:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chuckr@chuckr.org) Received: from [66.92.151.195] (july.chuckr.org [66.92.151.195]) by april.chuckr.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F36012015; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 14:30:49 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <424C4F90.8080708@chuckr.org> Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 19:29:20 +0000 From: Chuck Robey User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050316) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Edenfield References: <200503291443.27311.aj@siegel-tech.net> <424B5F30.6040409@chuckr.org> <200503302304.36661.bulk_mail@siegel-tech.net> <424C4919.5080001@chuckr.org> <424C4E18.9000604@kutulu.org> In-Reply-To: <424C4E18.9000604@kutulu.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: aj@siegel-tech.net cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: libmagic X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 19:33:53 -0000 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@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@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 > > > > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include C & Java programming, FreeBSD, chuckr@chuckr.org | electronics, communications, and SF/Fantasy. New Year's Resolution: I will not sphroxify gullible people into looking up fictitious words in the dictionary (on the wall at my old fraternity, Signa Phi Nothing). ----------------------------------------------------------------------------