[horde] MIME Magic Support (fileinfo): No , how to make it to "Yes"

[Kevin M. Myer]

Quoting Adrian Mak <makkaichung at gmail.com>:

> I executed
> "pear install fileinfo" to install the fileinfo PECL
> but I got "checking for re2c... exit 0;
> checking for gawk... gawk
> checking for fileinfo support... yes, shared
> checking for magic files in default path... not found
> configure: error: Please reinstall the libmagic distribution
> `/tmp/tmpWHaFRJ/Fileinfo-1.0.2/configure' failed"
>
> what is libmagic  library?  My server is running Redhat AS 3 update 5

You need file 4.X, which has the magic code refactored into a libmagic 
library.  You should be able to grab a RHEL 4 SRPM and recompile and 
install it, if you want to use the PECL extension.

Kevin
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Kevin M. Myer
Senior Systems Administrator
Lancaster-Lebanon Intermediate Unit 13  http://www.iu13.org