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Author: James Mabry
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Subject: Compiler and header question
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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