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| author | christos <christos@NetBSD.org> | 2011-05-12 20:46:28 +0000 |
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| committer | christos <christos@NetBSD.org> | 2011-05-12 20:46:28 +0000 |
| commit | 2e1c341a70f7caef4d6e90366d38ad67a73d4268 (patch) | |
| tree | a36fffd54164a36beadc417d10011df51997f9e8 /external/bsd/file/dist/python/README | |
| parent | b6f96da23234479bfc1f4f36bc0854ec46105fa9 (diff) | |
from ftp.astron.com.
- many security related fixes
- no MAXPATHLEN limits
- fixed missing text specification on ascii magic
- new ``pascal'' style string formats
- whitespace comparison fix
- more magic
Diffstat (limited to 'external/bsd/file/dist/python/README')
| -rw-r--r-- | external/bsd/file/dist/python/README | 23 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/external/bsd/file/dist/python/README b/external/bsd/file/dist/python/README index ba22eb01fe4..8b9a2a7e407 100644 --- a/external/bsd/file/dist/python/README +++ b/external/bsd/file/dist/python/README @@ -1,26 +1,13 @@ - This directory contains Python bindings to allow you to access the -libmagic api. At the moment their status is "experimental" and -they are not built by default. You may need to edit include and library -search paths in setup.py so that python's distutils build process can -find the magic header and lib files. - -In order to be able to compile magic-python you need to have python -and the python-dev packages installed. - -Python libraries are always built for a particular version of Python -(2.2, 2.3, etc), and libraries built for one version will not be seen -by another. +libmagic api. At the moment their status is "experimental". -To build: +You can install the modules either with: $ python setup.py build +$ python setup.py install -Now, you can install the modules: +or, if you have easy_install: -$ cp build/lib.*/magic.so /usr/lib/python2.3/lib-dynload/ - -(the directory /usr/lib/python2.3 may vary, depending on your installation) +$ easy_install . magic-python should work now! - |
