A good night's sleep did the trick. Probably this is common knowledge but no amount of searching for the error messages when I did "pecl install fileinfo" gave me useful results. Anyways, if there is anyone who has had problems installing horde on OpenBSD as a result of fileinfo not being available, here is a quick note. Hope this is useful info.
To install fileinfo on OpenBSD 4.2, I had to do the following: 1) Install libmagic, autoconf, libtool from packages 2) export PHP_AUTOCONF=autoconf-2.59 3) export PHP_AUTOHEADER=autoheader-2.59 4) download from http://pecl.php.net/get/Fileinfo-1.0.4.tgz 5) tar xvzf Fileinfo-1.0.4.tgz 6) cd Fileinfo-1.0.4 7) /usr/local/bin/phpize 8) ./configure && make && make install 9) edit php.ini and add extension=fileinfo.so 10) restart httpd -- Vijay Sankar, M.Eng., P.Eng. President & CEO ForeTell Technologies Limited 59 Flamingo Avenue, Winnipeg, MB Canada R3J 0X6 Phone: +1 204 885 9535, E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]