[Magic-dev] Re: supported Magic platforms

[Mika Nystroem]

Hmm, I was just reading the code, trying to install the latest Magic
on FreeBSD-4.11, and I noticed that Magic comes with its own copy
of readline 4.3, so you shouldn't need to provide it yourself.
Unfortunately, compiling on my system, it sees that I have readline
installed (default with 4.11 I think), so it tries to use the system
readline, but it's older, and missing rl_filename_completion_function,
so the compile fails.  Not a difficult to thing to fix, but still.

I also wonder how well it'll deal with tcl/tk on FreeBSD, which
aren't installed the default way (as this would permit only one
version to be installed---I remember this used to be a nightmare
with tcl/tk, when certain programs would require an older version
and others a newer, and you tried to get everything to work on a
single system!)  But I'm not there yet.

    Mika

Fouad Mardini writes:
>Make sure you have the gcc readline library and the x11 development
>libraries. Also tcl won't hurt.  Hope it helps!
>
>-fouad
>
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>> Message: 3
>> 
>> 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.  On Magic 7 I get build errors involving gcc's lack
>> of support for the varargs functions.  Gcc now supports only stdarg, and
>> some of the source use incompatible varargs function calls.  On magic 6.5, I
>> get a redefinition error for wchar_t.  This problem kind of seems like a gcc
>> issue, since the conflicting files seem to be in the gcc libraries.
>> 
>> Any help is appreciated.
>> 
>> Is there a need for a Fedora port person?  I don't have much time, but maybe
>> I can help.
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>> Marcus Escobosa
>> 
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