On Sat, 2006-06-24 at 17:23 +1000, Michael Fleming wrote: > 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. [root@iam rpm -q glibc-devel glibc-devel-2.4-8 Got it already... yum told me it had nothing to do when I tried installing it like that. So I tried this: [root@iam rpm -q --whatprovides setenv no package provides setenv Jeez! It really seems to be missing, but locate finds a pile of documentation for it installed. Beats the hell outa me. If the doc gets installed, shouldn't the programs be installed too?? Must be a bug or an omission. I would like to know about this. :) Ric
