re: includes

["dan moylan-3" <user=1052@nabble.blu.org>]

kristian writes: 
> On Nov 30, 2007 1:53 PM, dan moylan <[hidden email]> wrote: 
> > no includes -- at all -- not even stdio.h -- sorry for not 
> > being more explicit.  the build-essential install did the 
> > trick.  should i have been able to find this on my own?  i 
> > was amazed that they were not there and had no idea as to 
> > where to look. 

> I think Ubuntu made the decision to not include them, since most 
> Desktop users are not programmers :-)  There is documentation about 
> this on wiki.ubuntu.com and various other places.  If you hit F1 at 
> your Desktop, a help window will come up where you can get lots of 
> information, even if you don't have an Internet connection.  Coming 
> from Red Hat, you probably wouldn't know all this, so no worries.  But 
> now you do!  And knowing is half the battle ... or something like that 
> :-P 

thanks, post facto i did the F1 trick, and searched under 
gcc, then c but didn't find it.  searching c++ found 
build-essential, as did just programming.  one just needs 
to know how to ask the right question. 

i still don't understand why ubuntu would include gcc in 
the default installation, but not build-essentials.  but 
then maybe i'm not supposed to. 

dan 

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