Compiler and header question

[James Mabry]

Miles Beck wrote:
>>Hey Miles,
>>just "cd /usr/include && ls -a". You should see a bunch of files ending
>>with the .h extension. These are part of the glibc package so make sure
>>that you have this as well. I think this is part of the base package?
> 
> 
> Hm, I only see the following files there...
> 
> ./  ../  FlexLexer.h  initreq.h  net/  proc/
> 
> I also tried installing glibc thinking maybe it was not there and got the
> following results.
> 
> ~#apt-get install glibc-2.2.5-11
>   Reading Package Lists... Done
>   Building Dependency Tree... Done
>   Note, selecting libc6 instead of glibc-2.2.5-11.2
>   0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0  not upgraded.
> ~# apt-get install libc6
>   Reading Package Lists... Done
>   Building Dependency Tree... Done
>   Sorry, libc6 is already the newest version.
> 

Ahh ok. I'm not sure which development branch you are using but "apt-get 
install libc6-dev" should do it for you :). The package description 
states that it "contains the symlinks, headers, and object files needed 
to compile and link programs which use the standard C library."


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