Compiling Under Debian

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

Steve,

On Debian, the library packages often come in two parts, one part is
sufficient to support precompiled applications, and the other part
containing the necessary headers etc. needed to compile sources. Those
second parts are often not automatically installed along with the first
parts. They will end with "-dev" (for development).

So type "aptcache search <library name>" and you will be shown all the
various packages associated with a given library, then just install the
missing "-dev" package, and your compiles will work fine.

Chuck


On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 12:46:51PM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
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> I've got a testing version of Lenny here but can't find the C standard
> headers.  I've installed every imaginable package pertaining to gcc
> and friends but when I go to compile any c programs like espeakup, I
> get not found errors all over the place for simple header files like
> stdio.h, errno.h, and so forth.  I know these to be standard c headers
> but the basic gcc package in debian doesn't seem to have them.  I also
> installed libstd-6-4-3... but still no joy.  What the hell am I
> missing here? I like Debian's package management strategy but I really
> wish they wouldn't split up some critical packages this way.  As far
> as right now is concerned, I cannot compile any c programs.
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