Re: [SLUG] Debian & .h files / Kernel building

[Craige McWhirter <craigem@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks everyone who had an idea. Turned out I needed libc6-dev (as
indicated by Jeff) and the libncurses5-dev to get the show going.

Jeff Waugh wrote:
> 
> > Michael Lake wrote:
> > > Craige McWhirter wrote:
> > >
> > > I've got them on one Debian system but not another. One was a
> > > clean Potato install, the other an upgrade from Slink to Potato.
> >
> > Ah the replies to this will provide some info between how
> > Debian and RH packages can answer this question.
> 
> lazarus: ~
> $ dpkg -S /usr/include/fcntl.h
> libc6-dev: /usr/include/fcntl.h

> 
> As you saw above, dpkg -S. The output of dpkg --help is pretty good. Long,
> but good.

Yes, it is. I'd read that yesterday and somehow overlooked it. I guess
"S" for search was really just to obtuse ;)

Cheers,
      Craige.