Re: [PLUG] Compiling perl in CPAN - progress!

[Bill Jonas <bill@billjonas.com>]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 12:44:14AM -0500, Michael Leone wrote:
> I did that (actually, there was a symlink there - cc - that was pointing
> to a non-existant file [/etc/alternatives/cc]). So I deleted that
> symlink, and made one pointing at gcc. And I'm making progress!

Ah.

> /usr/include/bits/types.h:29: stddef.h: No such file or directory
> 
> I'm missing some package needed for compilation, but which package?

Looks like libc6-dev on a Debian system.

BTW, since it appears you use Debian (from the /etc/alternatives reference
above), you can search packages for files at
<http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages> (the second textbox, "Search
the contents of packages").

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