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Jon Siwek commented on BIT-1096: -------------------------------- Looks like MAGIC_VERSION doesn't appear in magic.h until libmagic 5.13, which is probably why it's currently looking in {{file --version}} output for version info. Is it sufficient to use MAGIC_VERSION if available and fallback on {{file --version}} ? Or is there a better way to extract the version from older libmagics? > Should check version of libmagic not version of file > ---------------------------------------------------- > > Key: BIT-1096 > URL: https://bro-tracker.atlassian.net/browse/BIT-1096 > Project: Bro Issue Tracker > Issue Type: Problem > Components: Bro > Affects Versions: 2.2 > Environment: Mac OS X 10.6.8; libmagic and other dependencies > installed using MacPorts > Reporter: Ryan Schmidt > > As far as I can tell, bro requires the libmagic library, but not the file > program. However bro's configuration script appears not to be checking the > version of the libmagic library, but the version of the file program. This is > a problem in distributions like MacPorts where the libmagic library and the > file program are in separate packages; installing the libmagic package does > not mean you will automatically get the corresponding version of the file > program. > This causes a build failure on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard for example which > ships with /usr/bin/file version 5.03. Even though libmagic 5.15 is installed > from MacPorts, bro fails to configure, thinking it's too old. The MacPorts > project's bug report for that is https://trac.macports.org/ticket/41457 > Could you change bro's configuration script to check the version of libmagic > instead? You can check MAGIC_VERSION in magic.h. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.2-OD-03#6206) _______________________________________________ bro-dev mailing list bro-dev@bro.org http://mailman.icsi.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/bro-dev