X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 11:10:35 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: "file" command missing magic file (problem and solution) Message-ID: <20110203101035.GW2675@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <4D4A0FE3 DOT 40804 AT sayeh DOT ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4D4A0FE3.40804@sayeh.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On Feb 2 21:16, Andy Sun wrote: > Apparently, somewhere between version 4.xx and 5.xx, the magic file > which used to be /usr/share/file/magic (all my Unix life I knew > magic as an ASCII text file), has now become a directory > /usr/share/misc/magic/ with many small files for ease of > maintenance. It also happens that this directory "magic" is NOT part > of the binary distribution (you only get /usr/bin/file.exe, man page > and /usr/share/misc/magic.mgc). After I copied the entire magic > directory from the source distribution to /use/share/misc, "file -C" > works fine and recreated magic.mgc no problem. > > It would be nice if future binaries distribution of CYGWIN will > include the directory /usr/share/misc/magic and all the files within > it. Thanks for the heads up. I didn't notice this because `make install' neither installs a magic file nor a magic directory, only the compiled magic.mgc file. I just uploaded the new file-5.05-1 package which provides a magic file again, the same way as on Fedora. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple