[Magic-dev] supported Magic platforms

[R. Timothy Edwards]

Dear Marcus,

 > What platforms is Magic typically compiled on?
 > I have Fedora 3 and get build errors for Magic 6.5 and 7.  I have
 > followed the README instructions.

Magic versions prior to 7.0 were not developed on Linux and need quite
a bit of work to port---effectively, version 7.1 is the Linux port of
6.5 plus other fixes and improvements.  However, gcc-3 breaks all
versions except 7.2 and 7.3, in which I changed the varargs code.
Either 1) get and install gcc-2.95 (always a useful idea, since gcc-3
breaks a lot of applications), or 2) get magic 7.3 from my website
at http://bach.ece.jhu.edu/~tim/programs/magic/.

Versions 7.2 and 7.3 have been regularly compiled and tested on
Debian, RedHat, FC2, FC3, and FC2 on an AMD Opteron (64 bit).  It is
somewhat less often tested on other systems, but should compile and
run on most any UNIX-like OS, including Cygwin.

                                     Regards,
                                     Tim

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