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From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: where is generic.h ?
Date: 27 May 1997 11:11:22 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <Pine.HPP.3.96.970526110132.20995A-100000@ydale.si.sintef.no>,
	Anders Moe <anm@si.sintef.no> writes:
> 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.

Sounds like you need "-I /usr/include/g++".  You should find generic.h
in this directory.

> Anders Moe
> Oslo, Norway
> 

-- 
Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
      <http://www.awfulhak.org>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !