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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: where is generic.h ?
Date: Mon, 26 May 1997 17:38:36 -0700
Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM
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To: Anders Moe <anm@si.sintef.no>
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Anders Moe wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone. Since DOS - fdisk just toasted my Linux - partition I've
> decided to give FreeBSD a try again. I had to abandon 2.1.5 in favor
> of Linux because it (FBSD) failed to compile an all-important application
> (diffpack, http://www.oslo.sintef.no/diffpack/). It failed because
> a spesific file, ' generic.h' was missing. I'd expect it to be available in
> 2.2.x, but so far I haven't found it. Could someone please enlighten me
> on this ? Thanks in advance.

Assuming that you've registered yourself for this software properly (so
as to have all header files - they say right on their home page that 2
very necessary C++ header files are omitted from the distribution and
available only upon registration), you might also be interested in
what's in /usr/include/g++/generic.h

-- 
- Jordan Hubbard
  FreeBSD core team / Walnut Creek CDROM.