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

[Christos Zoulas]

Add -Wl,-R<pathtoyourlibmagic.so> in the Makefile link line.

christos

> On May 27, 2021, at 12:47 PM, Matthew Czarnek <matthew.czarnek at verizonmedia.com> wrote:
> 
> 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 <http://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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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 Thank you again to Christos and Guy for helping me determine that my version of "file" is very out of date and the newest version would probably fix my problem.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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