Re: compile errors from gcc

[Kai Ruottu <karuottu at mbnet dot fi>]

D Macean wrote:
> Gentlemen:
>
> I have a small source lq100.c that I have compiled in the past with 
> earlier versions of gcc.
>
> gcc lq100.c produces: error: stdio.h does not exist
>                                      error  EOF undeclared.
>
> This trouble follows downloading Debian 4.0 via NETINSTALL.
> gcc -print-prog-name=cc1 yields /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.1.2/cc1 
> which also contains some headers but not stdio.h
>
> The system also contains the two empty directories
> /lib/i486-linux-gnu/ and
> /usr/lib/i486-linux-gnu/
> which I presume are there because the file
>
> /etc/ld.so.conf.d/i486-linux-gnu.conf
>
> lists the two above empty files.
>
> It has always been a mystery to me where the header files come from 
> and the horrible configuration produced by NETINSTAL has forced me to 
> think a bit more about this matter. If there is a simple remedy could 
> you please let me know!
The standard C headers and the standard C libraries will come with the 
"C library", not with GCC !  In the Linux case the
used C library is called "glibc" aka "GNU C library"...  A default Linux 
install may install only the "runtime" parts of the C
library - those "shared libraries" - but not any "development" (also 
called as "compile time" and "link time") parts :-(

So what you should still install is some "glibc-devel-<something>.deb" 
package which is in sync with your current runtime
parts in '/lib', like the '/lib/libc.so.6' there....


> Thanking you in anticipation
> Donald Macvean