[File] [E] Re: Error running file 5-40

[Matthew Czarnek]

You may be right about that:

icdev$: ldd bin/file

linux-vdso.so.1 =>  (0x00007ffd287f6000)

libmagic.so.1 => /lib64/libmagic.so.1 (0x00007f7564470000)

libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00007f75640a2000)

libz.so.1 => /lib64/libz.so.1 (0x00007f7563e8c000)

/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f756468d000)

Is there a different way to tell it which installation directory to use?
Does exec-prefix need to be set?

Something else interesting I noticed: I don't seem to have a 'magic.h' file
in the file-5.40 folder that was extracted from the zip. Though I do have a
'magic.h.in'  Probably that's fine and something related to Makefiles that
I don't understand.

On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 12:38 PM Christos Zoulas <christos at zoulas.com>
wrote:

> Perhaps it is picking up the old libmagic.so. What does 'ldd
> file/bin/file' say?
>
> christos
>
> On May 27, 2021, at 12:23 PM, Matthew Czarnek <
> matthew.czarnek at verizonmedia.com> wrote:
>
> Thank you again to Christos and Guy for helping me determine that my
> version of "file" is very out of date and the newest version would probably
> fix my problem.
>
> I'm now trying to compile file 5-40 from source and run it and it's
> throwing an error message:
>
> ./file/bin/file _samples/magic8
>
> ./file/bin/file: symbol lookup error: ./file/bin/file: undefined symbol:
> magic_version
>
> Would you know how to solve this?
>
> Thanks,
> Matt
>
> Steps I used to build this and install to separate location so I don't
> overwrite the already installed file command:
> Download file 5-40
>
> ./configure --prefix=<path>/file/
> make
> make install
>
> run using:
>
> ./file/bin/file _samples/magic8
>
> ./file/bin/file: symbol lookup error: ./file/bin/file: undefined symbol:
> magic_version
>
> I've tried a couple others too, such as:
>
> ./file file
>
> ./file: symbol lookup error: ./file: undefined symbol: magic_version
>
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