On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 12:54:02PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe 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>
Just to clarify --- it should be in /usr/include/dpkg, not /usr/_share_/include/dpkg. > > 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.. (I'm actually using it from Perl, which I assume means C is better than C++, although I've really no idea, and in any case, going direct to the source made more sense) Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. PGP encrypted mail preferred. ``The thing is: trying to be too generic is EVIL. It's stupid, it results in slower code, and it results in more bugs.'' -- Linus Torvalds
