Re: no c header files in Progeny?

[Faheem Mitha <faheem@email.unc.edu>]

On Fri, 12 Oct 2001, Shea Martin wrote:

>
> It looks like Progeny never installed any C header files during
> install???????????????????
> I didn't even know that was legal here in Unix world.  In fact I have
> never come across such a problem, and don't really know how to fix it.
>
> I guess I would need the the c-header.deb, hard to get it when I don't
> know the name of it.  If anyone knows what I need let me know.  (All I
> am trying to do if compile some ANSI C, and maybe compile a kernel).

I think you need libc6-dev. You must have libc6 otherwise your system
wouln't function. Just do apt-get install libc6-dev. It is not
extraordinarily suprising it is not included by default, since you only
need it if you want to compile things, and not everyone wants to do that.

                                         Faheem.