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authorrobi <robi>2011-04-05 01:13:26 +0000
committerrobi <robi>2011-04-05 01:13:26 +0000
commit022612eae379cc1d70b09655096a33d0a5f09617 (patch)
treee97e167721414503f814e7d27bddf0f0075461bb /INSTALL
parentc98aee37f48b9523e2eceef61949aeda958ed3f8 (diff)
version stuff
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diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 4843fc7..6514046 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ this is everything, and it installs the following files
-Detailed Installation Howto
+Detailed Install Howto
============================
Following detailed instructions for installing considered special cases,
@@ -132,10 +132,11 @@ Which of the two libmagic versions the finished ext4magic use, you can check wit
If you get the following error during configure ext4magic:
-"error: library libmagic.so file-version >= 5.04 not found, install the package "file-5.04" to build ext4magic"
+"library libmagic.so >= 5.04 not found, install package "file-5.04" and "file-devel" (workaround see INSTALL)"
-and "file-5.04" is installed, probably the devel package it is not installed. Not for all distributions
-it is available. You can work around that by generate a symlink to the existing version of this library. (on a 64-bit system, the library path can also be /usr/lib64 )
+and >= "file-5.04" is installed, then no file "libmagic.so" is found, probably the devel package is not installed.
+Not for all distributions it is available. You can work around that by generate a symlink "libmagic.so" to the
+existing version of this library. (on a 64-bit system, the library path can also be /usr/lib64 )
see the following log:
# cd /usr/lib
@@ -145,6 +146,7 @@ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Sep 23 01:40 /usr/lib/libmagic.so -> libmagic.so.1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Aug 28 16:09 /usr/lib/libmagic.so.1 -> libmagic.so.1.0.0
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 116720 Oct 24 2009 /usr/lib/libmagic.so.1.0.0
+For more than one version of libmagic:
The version for compiling with ext4magic should have the symlink "libmagic.so"
another version of libmagic should not have this symlink.