On Tue, 5 Oct 1999 [email protected] wrote: > dpkg installs dpkg.h in /usr/share/include/dpkg/, which gcc doesn't search > by default. /usr/include would seem a more sensible place.
Eh? Lots of packages do this. The proper way to handle it is to use #include <dpkg/dpkg.h> Like you did below, not to try to add it to the compiler include path. > #include <dpkg/dpkg.h> gives errors unless the following symbols are defined: > #define NONRETURNING > #define NONRETURNPRINTFFORMAT(a,b) > #define PRINTFFORMAT(a,b) See Amy Fong's bug report on this subject.. > Finally, and as more of a wishlist item, it'd be nice if the cmpversions() > function from main/enquiry.c was included in libdpkg itself. A possible > implementation might be: You could use the APT library which does export an inteface like this.. Jason
