Re: Standard header files.

["David Z. Maze" <dmaze@donut.mit.edu>]

Christopher R Barry <carrera-panamerica@sysanalyst.com> writes:
CRB> I've installed gcc and all the packages that dselect recommends
CRB> to go with it but whenever I try to compile anything, like the
CRB> kernel, I just get a bunch of error messages about missing *.h
CRB> header files like stdio.h. Shouldn't gcc come with these basic
CRB> fundamental headers?

No, they're in the libc5-dev package; you need to install that.  In
general, for any library package libfoo, there's a corresponding
libfoo-dev package that contains the header files and such.

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