At 6:09 PM -0500 6/30/07, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
>>>>> "JR" == Jeffrey Ross
<jeff(a)bubble.org> 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.
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