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 --- "R. Timothy Edwards" <tim AT stravinsky DOT jhuapl.edu>
a écrit : > Several people have written to say that in
order to
> get magic to
> compile on more recent Linux versions (Debian, SuSE,
> etc.), they
> had to get rid of the "-lbsd" link added to the
> GR_LIBS definition
> for linking into the libgraphics.o library.  I took
> out the
> switch on my RedHat system, where the switch has
> never caused any
> problems before, and I still got a clean compile. 
> Does anyone
> know of any Linux system which will fail to compile
> without that
> "-lbsd" switch?  If not, we should remove it.
>    On my RedHat system, the only contents of
> /usr/lib/libbsd.a
> are the routines "getpgrp" and "setpgrp" which are
> not used by
> magic.
> 						---Tim 

When I compiled magic at home (Slackware 7.1 ) I had
the same problem 

But after making magic-6.5.1 to compile on my system
it does't seemed as a problem to me, just a little
hack
:-)
Bye


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