On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 06:55:31PM -0400, Mark Whitis wrote: > > >Install the -dev package, needed to compile most programs... ;-) > > There is no wx-dev or wx2.6-dev package.
Correct, nor should there be. `apt-cache search wx` > Not only that, the debian > package search tool says that wx-config does not exist in any package > in the stable or unstable distributions. It is also correct. > turns out wx-config is somewhere in libwxbase* For * == -dev, right? Likewise for all the other libwx*-d* packages. See above. > The wxwidgets packages are a bit of a mess. No consistent naming. No > master package that includes all the others as a dependency. No > dependency link between wx* and libwxbase*. PEBKAC. The dependencies are also quite correct, and the naming is compliant with relevant -policy and consistent with being able to install an infinite variety of build permutations concurrently (should you be so insane). If you couldn't find what you wanted immediately, then documentation to help the next person is always welcome. Grumbling vaguely that things are a 'mess' seems a bit non-sequitur if the notion of requiring the relevant -dev package to build things with a library is new to you. I wrote wx-config, so I think I have a vague notion of where it fits into the grand scheme of things... If you'd like to contribute to explaining all that to others, please do -- then the next guy can blame you for his misunderstandings. And so the world goes round. ;) I don't know what you don't know. So if you think others don't know it either, then you've got a golden opportunity to do something constructive to help. thanks in advance, Ron -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
