Changing files in Magdir
Christos Zoulas
christos at zoulas.com
Fri Jul 18 21:33:50 EEST 2008
On Jul 18, 11:30am, david.nachum at berkeley.edu ("David Nachum") wrote:
-- Subject: Re: Changing files in Magdir
| Thank you for your help.
|
| I am still a bit confused though. If I delete sgml (one of the files in
| Magdir), I can't compile 'file'. However, if I just empty the file, I can
| compile and run without any problems,and the types that are handled by
| sgml are still handled correctly.
|
| Any idea what's going on?
|
| David
Well, you have to make clean and make again. If you delete a file in
older versions of file, that would break the compilation because all
the magic files were listed in the Makefile. This is not the case anymore.
christos
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