Re: includes

["Christopher Giroir" <user=1544@nabble.blu.org>]

 Normally gcc is not included (unless I'm confused) maybe it's possible 
some package you installed installed it? 

I do know that a very common forum post is "Where is gcc in the 
default install?" 

Chris 

On Nov 30, 2007 10:37 PM, dan moylan <[hidden email]> wrote: 
> 
> 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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