Re: [Nano-devel] Alert on unknown file: magic_file(...) failed: line 156: regex error 10

[Benno Schulenberg]

Hello Michal,

Op 10-04-19 om 13:53 schreef Michal Nowak:
> As OpenIndiana is based on from illumos an non-GNU operating system, and GNU 
> is
> now what's in many cases expected, in some cases functionality of the system 
> are
> delivered "twice".
> 
> So, e.g. we ship two magic.h headers, the former one from
> https://github.com/file/file and the latter one from illumos:
> 
> usr/include/magic.h     pkg:/library/address@hidden
> usr/include/ast/magic.h pkg:/system/address@hidden
> 
> Maybe the illumos ast/magic.h was picked instead of the GNU one?

You could check by running:
    strace -f make 2>TRAIL; grep magic.h TRAIL

But I don't think it matters which header gets used but which data files.
When I run:

    strace src/nano README 2>TRAIL; grep magic TRAIL

and press ^X, it opened /etc/magic and /usr/share/misc/magic.mgc.
The first is empty apart from two comment lines, and the second
is filled with binary data.  Possibly in your case it finds multiple
binary data files?

> I think going with --disable-libmagic is the best for us for now.
Sounds good.

Benno

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