From fdcc769e2fa843aeb1617ba575b6c5256ecda83c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gerard Beekmans Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 19:04:23 +0000 Subject: removed 'file -C' - already done by package itself git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@1472 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689 --- chapter06/file-inst.xml | 15 --------------- 1 file changed, 15 deletions(-) diff --git a/chapter06/file-inst.xml b/chapter06/file-inst.xml index 130bca387..43696cf9a 100644 --- a/chapter06/file-inst.xml +++ b/chapter06/file-inst.xml @@ -8,20 +8,5 @@ make && make install -File uses magic numbers to determine a file type. These magic numbers -come with File in a plain text file. File internally compiles this database -each time it is run. This is not the normal type of operation for File since -compiling a -plain text file each time is not the fastest way to do it. File offers an -option "-C" to compile this magic number file. The reason this isn't done -automatically is that some people like to work on the magic numbers. On the -other hand many people didn't get it that they should compile the magic -numbers, so the author of File added a warning when the plain text magic file -is used. As we usually won't work on the plain text magic file, we -compile this file, because it's faster, fixes that annoying warning and is how -it was meant to be: - -file -C - -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf