Right on, Anthony! I just ran into the same type of problem trying to compile a
driver for my NIC. I
hope the Mandrake folks read your (our) messages.
Anthony Huereca wrote:
> Looks like you dont' have all the libraries installed. Go to /usr/include and
> see if stdio.h is there. If it's not, then you'll need to download an RPM of
> whatever header files you need, like
>
>http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/mandrake/cooker/cooker/Mandrake/RPMS/glibc-devel-2.1.3-2mdk.i586.html
> for stdio.h.
>
> But from what it sounds like, this is a newly installed system so to save you
> the headache of later compiles, you may want to consider reinstalling and this
> time select all the packages that have ANYTHING to do with programming and/or
> libraries.
> Hmm, reading through the installation procedure of Mandrake 7, looks like the
> installation that you do ("recommended") doesn't let you choose what packages
> you install. In that case, you can either look up each libary you're missing (I
> use http://google.com/linux to search for the file and see what rpm file it is
> in, and then use rpmfind.net to download it from) or else do a "Custom"
> installation, which you probally wouldn't want to do since you're a newbie.
> Your choice though.
>
> And if any Mandrake peoples are reading this, you guys really need to make the
> installation of all the libraries standard for all installations. It's a huge
> hassle to go track down everything if you don't have it, and newbies don't
> relieze that they'll need all those libraries (since they don't program) until
> they start compiling stuff from source.
>
> > Hello!
> > I have just installed Mandrake 7.0 yesterday!!!! I am
> > a very newbie!!! :)
> > i chose the 'recommended installation'
> > i installed mandrake on its own partition!
> >
> > after installation... i tried gcc
> > but it didn't work!
> > i tried the famout "Hello World" example!
> > but the compiler complained that
> > stdio.h: No such file or directory!!!!
> > what to do!
> > i tried to reinstall linux again but this didn't work!
> > any help would be greatly appreciated!
> > thank u
> >
> > Urs..
> > Mohamed Saad
> >
> >
> >
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