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Last change on this file since f0f3191 was 3acb38f, checked in by Gerard Beekmans <gerard@…>, 23 years ago

Removed all -f flags from cp commands

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1<sect2>
2<title>Installation of File</title>
3
4<para>Note that the sed used in this installation only works if the line
5break is placed exactly where it is in the book. Don't try and put it
6all on one line otherwise it won't work. Install File by running the
7following commands:</para>
8
9<para><screen><userinput>cp readelf.h readelf.h.backup &amp;&amp;</userinput>
10<userinput>sed '/#define __/a \</userinput>
11<userinput>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;#include &lt;stdint.h&gt;' readelf.h.backup &gt; readelf.h &amp;&amp;</userinput>
12<userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --datadir=/usr/share/misc &amp;&amp;</userinput>
13<userinput>make &amp;&amp;</userinput>
14<userinput>make install</userinput></screen></para>
15
16<para>File uses magic numbers to determine a file type. These magic numbers
17come with File in a plain text file. File internally compiles this database
18each time it is run. This is not the normal type of operation for File since
19compiling a
20plain text file each time is not the fastest way to do it. File offers an
21option "-C" to compile this magic number file. The reason this isn't done
22automatically is that some people like to work on the magic numbers. On the
23other hand many people didn't get it that they should compile the magic
24numbers, so the author of File added a warning when the plain text magic file
25is used. As we usually won't work on the plain text magic file, we
26compile this file, because it's faster, fixes that annoying warning and is how
27it was meant to be:</para>
28
29<para><screen><userinput>file -C</userinput></screen></para>
30
31</sect2>
32
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