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Hallo,

I recently installed magic on an x86 Linux Suse 8.2 machine.
The installation wasn't smooth. I'm not a software engineer,
so I struggled to complete the installation, but managed in
the end:

1/ I downloaded the 7.1 version, but the make step produced
   lots of warnings like:

   CalmaRead.c:21:9: warning: extra tokens at end of #endif
directive

   with errors at the end, so I gave up on that.

2/ I downloaded the 7.2.43 version and this choked on an
   included file varargs.h. Checking the web, I found that
   version 3.3 of gcc, which I have, no longer supports this
   file. It is there, but the contents are:

   #ifndef _VARARGS_H
   #define _VARARGS_H
   #error "GCC no longer implements <varargs.h>."
   #error "Revise your code to use <stdarg.h>."
   #endif

   The error lines were being copied to the output when the
   files referencing varargs.h were compiled, and then the
   compilation failed.

3/ Simply changing varargs.h to stdarg.h as implied in the
error
   message didn't work.

4/ A web search revealed that varargs.h supports pretty old
code
   and for this reason support has now been withdrawn. I
   couldn't find any help if the code that needed revising was
   not yours to revise. I didn't feel up to revising someone
   else's code!

5/ I found another varargs.h file under bcc/include, and copied
   it across to the gcc tree. At this point the compile worked
   and magic-7.2.43 is now functional.

As you've probably guessed, my C programming skills are pretty
minimal, and it took me around 4 hours to get magic
operational.
Hopefully, this email will help you improve the install process
for future users. Why gcc 3.3 was released without a 
varargs.h_old file being included is a mystery to me.

Graham Petley

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