Hello:

I have a Fedora Core 11 system at home (Centos 5.2 at work). I'd like
to build vim with huge and perl. This works under Centos, but fails at
home: no EXTERN.h or perl.h (and, presumably, other things). So: is
there a yum package I should be downloading, and if so, which one?
(both the home computer and the work computer are 64-bit systems)

Thank you,
Chip Campbell

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Am Donnerstag, den 03.12.2009, 18:43 +0100 schrieb Charles E Campbell
Jr:
> Hello:
>
> I have a Fedora Core 11 system at home (Centos 5.2 at work). I'd like
> to build vim with huge and perl. This works under Centos, but fails at
> home: no EXTERN.h or perl.h (and, presumably, other things). So: is
> there a yum package I should be downloading, and if so, which one?
> (both the home computer and the work computer are 64-bit systems)
>
> Thank you,
> Chip Campbell
>

The command:
yum provides "*/$filename"

will tell you wich packages provide a certain file

Chris


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Christoph Maser wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, den 03.12.2009, 18:43 +0100 schrieb Charles E Campbell
> Jr:
>
>> Hello:
>>
>> I have a Fedora Core 11 system at home (Centos 5.2 at work). I'd like
>> to build vim with huge and perl. This works under Centos, but fails at
>> home: no EXTERN.h or perl.h (and, presumably, other things). So: is
>> there a yum package I should be downloading, and if so, which one?
>> (both the home computer and the work computer are 64-bit systems)
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Chip Campbell
>>
>>
>
> The command:
> yum provides "*/$filename"
>
> will tell you wich packages provide a certain file
>

Thanks -- I'll try it out tonight at home. However, I note that trying
it on my Centos machine yields:

$ yum provides '*/EXTERN.h'
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Error: Caching enabled but no local cache of
//var/cache/yum/addons/filelists.xml.gz from addons

So I'm trying

yum makecache

and then

yum provides "*/EXTERN.h"
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror

(works!)

Thank you,
Chip Campbell

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On Thu, Dec 03, 2009, Charles E Campbell Jr wrote:
>Christoph Maser wrote:
>> Am Donnerstag, den 03.12.2009, 18:43 +0100 schrieb Charles E Campbell
>> Jr:
>>
>>> Hello:
>>>
>>> I have a Fedora Core 11 system at home (Centos 5.2 at work). I'd like
>>> to build vim with huge and perl. This works under Centos, but fails at
>>> home: no EXTERN.h or perl.h (and, presumably, other things). So: is
>>> there a yum package I should be downloading, and if so, which one?
>>> (both the home computer and the work computer are 64-bit systems)
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>> Chip Campbell
>>>
>>>
>>
>> The command:
>> yum provides "*/$filename"
>>
>> will tell you wich packages provide a certain file
>>
>
>Thanks -- I'll try it out tonight at home. However, I note that trying
>it on my Centos machine yields:
>
>$ yum provides '*/EXTERN.h'
>Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
>Error: Caching enabled but no local cache of
>//var/cache/yum/addons/filelists.xml.gz from addons

If I remember correctly, EXTERN.h file is often something that
may be package dependent containing something like:

#undef EXT
#undef INIT
#define EXT extern
#define INIT(x)

Perl distributions generally have an EXTERN.h and perl.h file
that is used during the perl build process.

Bill
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