At 6:09 PM -0500 6/30/07, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: >>>>>> "JR" == Jeffrey Ross <jeff@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >JR> I tried using the command "yum whatprovides stddef.h" to locate >JR> the include library last night. Yum when through its process and >JR> came up with nothing in a fairly short order. > >Which is not surprising since there is no package which provides >"state's.h". What does "'states.h'" have to do with "stddef.h"? >However, the kernel-headers package provides >/usr/include/linux/stddef.h; you simply need to give a full path to >the file you're trying to find. I've seen this wrong answer twice now, and also the correct answer that one does not need to provide a full path. If only the filename is given, all the packages that provide stddef.h in any location are found; if the full path, only packages that provide it exactly there are found. This is on FC6; some report that on F7 it is necessary to say '*stddef.h'. If yum is providing the answer quickly, it may well be that you ran it as a normal user (as suggested by another), and thus from the cache. Run it as root and yum will be able to download the filelist info. -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
