libmagic configury foobar

[Andrew Haley]

Tom Tromey writes:
 > >>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com> writes:
 > 
 > Andrew> We were checking for magic.h but not for the linkability of libmagic.
 > Andrew> This is wrong: we might well have libmagic headers but not have
 > Andrew> libmagic.so for every arch.
 > 
 > We may want something similar in Classpath.  This CNI code is just a
 > straightforward translation of the JNI code there.

Is its ever appropriate to check for headers?  It seems absurdly
fragile.

Andrew.