I am attempting to install the fileinfo extension on an Apple Mac OSX 10.5 under MacPorts. I have php5 installed along with the php5-pear package. Running the command pecl install fileinfo results in the following output: Macintosh:~ root# pecl install fileinfo downloading Fileinfo-1.0.4.tgz ... Starting to download Fileinfo-1.0.4.tgz (5,835 bytes) .....done: 5,835 bytes 3 source files, building running: phpize Configuring for: PHP Api Version: 20041225 Zend Module Api No: 20060613 Zend Extension Api No: 220060519 building in /var/tmp/pear-build-root/Fileinfo-1.0.4 running: /private/tmp/pear/cache/Fileinfo-1.0.4/configure checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /usr/bin/grep checking for egrep... /usr/bin/grep -E checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /usr/bin/sed checking for gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of executables... checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed checking whether gcc and cc understand -c and -o together... yes checking for system library directory... lib checking if compiler supports -R... no checking if compiler supports -Wl,-rpath,... yes checking build system type... i686-apple-darwin9.0.0 checking host system type... i686-apple-darwin9.0.0 checking target system type... i686-apple-darwin9.0.0 checking for PHP prefix... /opt/local checking for PHP includes... -I/opt/local/include/php -I/opt/local/include/php/main -I/opt/local/include/php/TSRM -I/opt/local/include/php/Zend -I/opt/local/include/php/ext -I/opt/local/include/php/ext/date/lib checking for PHP extension directory... /opt/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613 checking for PHP installed headers prefix... /opt/local/include/php checking for re2c... re2c checking for re2c version... 0.13.1 (ok) checking for gawk... gawk checking for fileinfo support... yes, shared checking for magic files in default path... not found configure: error: Please reinstall the libmagic distribution ERROR: `/private/tmp/pear/cache/Fileinfo-1.0.4/configure' failed I have tried reinstalling the libmagic package but this makes no difference. Further investigation of the configure script reveals that a header file (magic.h) is missing. The configure script expects magic.h to be in any one of the /usr, /usr/share/file, or /usr/local directories, which it is not. Having found magic.h in the /opt/local/include directory, I have tried copying it to the /usr, /usr/share/file and /usr/local directories, but this only results in a slightly different error: Macintosh:~ root# pecl install fileinfo downloading Fileinfo-1.0.4.tgz ... Starting to download Fileinfo-1.0.4.tgz (5,835 bytes) .....done: 5,835 bytes 3 source files, building running: phpize Configuring for: PHP Api Version: 20041225 Zend Module Api No: 20060613 Zend Extension Api No: 220060519 building in /var/tmp/pear-build-root/Fileinfo-1.0.4 running: /private/tmp/pear/cache/Fileinfo-1.0.4/configure checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /usr/bin/grep checking for egrep... /usr/bin/grep -E checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /usr/bin/sed checking for gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of executables... checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed checking whether gcc and cc understand -c and -o together... yes checking for system library directory... lib checking if compiler supports -R... no checking if compiler supports -Wl,-rpath,... yes checking build system type... i686-apple-darwin9.0.0 checking host system type... i686-apple-darwin9.0.0 checking target system type... i686-apple-darwin9.0.0 checking for PHP prefix... /opt/local checking for PHP includes... -I/opt/local/include/php -I/opt/local/include/php/main -I/opt/local/include/php/TSRM -I/opt/local/include/php/Zend -I/opt/local/include/php/ext -I/opt/local/include/php/ext/date/lib checking for PHP extension directory... /opt/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613 checking for PHP installed headers prefix... /opt/local/include/php checking for re2c... re2c checking for re2c version... 0.13.1 (ok) checking for gawk... gawk checking for fileinfo support... yes, shared checking for magic files in default path... found in /usr checking for dl... no checking for __dl... no checking for dl in -ldlopen... no checking for __dl in -ldlopen... no checking for gzgets... no checking for __gzgets... no checking for gzgets in -lz... yes checking for round... yes checking for magic_open in -lmagic... no configure: error: wrong magic lib version or lib not found ERROR: `/private/tmp/pear/cache/Fileinfo-1.0.4/configure' failed Any ideas on what I can do or where I should look to resolve this issue? Any help would be appreciated. John -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/PHP-PECL-Extension-Installation-Failure-tf4788169.html... Sent from the MacPorts - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.