On Sat, 2006-06-24 at 02:43 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: > I'm compiling a program from a tarball and the ./configure process > claims: > checking for getuid... yes > checking for mempcpy... yes > checking for munmap... yes > checking for putenv... no > checking for setenv... no > > > I've got the man pages, so I would think it's installed. But apparently > it is not. So I: yum install glibc* ...and here's the fun part! > > ============================================================================= > Package Arch Version Repository > Size > ============================================================================= > Installing: > glibc-debuginfo i686 2.4-8 updates > 5.8 M > glibc-debuginfo-common i386 2.4-8 updates > 12 M > glibc-utils i386 2.4-8 updates > 109 k > > Transaction Summary > ============================================================================= > Install 3 Package(s) > Update 0 Package(s) > Remove 0 Package(s) > Total download size: 18 M > > glibc-utils is 109k, while the debug stuff is almost 18 megs. You shouldn't need the debug stuff unless you're actively bug-hunting. > Even after filling up a chunk of harddrive, I cannot locate putenv nor > setenv. I tried google... and from what I can gather it's part of glibc? > The make refuses to make, and I think this is the problem... I think. > If anyone has some help to offer, I'd appreciate it. Ric You need to install glibc-devel (which was not picked up via the above yum command, gotta love globbing functions...) "yum install glibc-devel" and you should be set. Cheers, Michael. -- Michael Fleming <mfleming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> in Brisbane, Australia "Oh Bother" said the Borg, "we've assimilated Pooh!"
