setenv... where is it??
Michael Fleming
mfleming at enlartenment.com
Sat Jun 24 07:23:56 UTC 2006
On Sat, 2006-06-24 at 02:43 -0400, Ric Moore wrote:
> I'm compiling a program from a tarball and the ./configure process
> claims:
> checking for getuid... yes
> checking for mempcpy... yes
> checking for munmap... yes
> checking for putenv... no
> checking for setenv... no
>
>
> I've got the man pages, so I would think it's installed. But apparently
> it is not. So I: yum install glibc* ...and here's the fun part!
>
> =============================================================================
> Package Arch Version Repository
> Size
> =============================================================================
> Installing:
> glibc-debuginfo i686 2.4-8 updates
> 5.8 M
> glibc-debuginfo-common i386 2.4-8 updates
> 12 M
> glibc-utils i386 2.4-8 updates
> 109 k
>
> Transaction Summary
> =============================================================================
> Install 3 Package(s)
> Update 0 Package(s)
> Remove 0 Package(s)
> Total download size: 18 M
>
> glibc-utils is 109k, while the debug stuff is almost 18 megs.
You shouldn't need the debug stuff unless you're actively bug-hunting.
> Even after filling up a chunk of harddrive, I cannot locate putenv nor
> setenv. I tried google... and from what I can gather it's part of glibc?
> The make refuses to make, and I think this is the problem... I think.
> If anyone has some help to offer, I'd appreciate it. Ric
You need to install glibc-devel (which was not picked up via the above
yum command, gotta love globbing functions...)
"yum install glibc-devel" and you should be set.
Cheers,
Michael.
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Michael Fleming <mfleming at enlartenment.com> in Brisbane, Australia
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