Re: [CentOS] which gcc package?

Michael Klinosky wrote:

Alexander Dalloz wrote:

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You need to install an additional -devel packages.

Given a list of 10 choices, that would've been at the bottom. I _never_ would have guessed!

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yum provides */Xlib.h

Thank you for today's linux lesson. I'm just delving into compiling programs.

This isn't really 'linux' specific. It relates to the way distributions are packaged. If you don't compile things locally, you don't need all the .h header files so they are split into separate package-devel packages. You can get a bunch of them at once if you pick the development-related groups during an install or you can do a 'yum grouplist', then 'yum groupinstall ...' for the ones you are likely to need.