Re: development packages from pkgsrc

[matthew sporleder <msporleder%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 10:07 AM, H Xu <xusubsc%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> On 2011/8/22 21:48, matthew sporleder wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 4:37 AM, H Xu<xusubsc%gmail.com@localhost>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Does pkgsrc provide any devlopment packages(including headers, link
>>> libraries, etc.) for python, sqlite, etc? When I want to build something
>>> depending on libraries other than the standard library, I found it I
>>> always
>>> need to download the source package from the official website.
>>>
>>> Any ideas?
>>>
>>
>> pkgsrc, for the most part, doesn't split packages up into foo and
>> foo-dev like RHEL does.
>>
>> Can you give an example of where a build has required you to download
>> the source manually?
>>
>
> I've tested two packages.
>
> The first one is when I want to build vim with python support, I found that
> the "configure" could not detect python development files.
>
> The second one is used by my program, which requires sqlite3. sqlite3
> development files could not be detected by this script:
> http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf-archive/ax_lib_sqlite3.html
>

When you install stuff from pkgsrc it usually ends up in /usr/pkg.
Your other software may not be searching there.