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Last change on this file since 2d3ec8b was 4023fcb, checked in by Marc Heerdink <gimli@…>, 23 years ago

[200] The installation instructions for file were changed for using touch to avoid the sed command.

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1<sect2>
2<title>Installation of File</title>
3
4<para>Install File by running the following commands:</para>
5
6<para><screen><userinput>touch aclocal.m4 configure Makefile.in stamp-h.in &amp;&amp;
7./configure --prefix=/usr --datadir=/usr/share/misc &amp;&amp;
8make &amp;&amp;
9make install</userinput></screen></para>
10
11<para>File uses magic numbers to determine a file type. These magic numbers
12come with File in a plain text file. File internally compiles this database
13each time it is run. This is not the normal type of operation for File since
14compiling a
15plain text file each time is not the fastest way to do it. File offers an
16option "-C" to compile this magic number file. The reason this isn't done
17automatically is that some people like to work on the magic numbers. On the
18other hand many people didn't get it that they should compile the magic
19numbers, so the author of File added a warning when the plain text magic file
20is used. As we usually won't work on the plain text magic file, we
21compile this file, because it's faster, fixes that annoying warning and is how
22it was meant to be:</para>
23
24<para><screen><userinput>file -C</userinput></screen></para>
25
26</sect2>
27
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