wireshark
Reputation: 1633
what's different between lib and lib-devel in yum?
I'm compiling a software that depends on libpcap,so I yum install libpcap,but when I ./configure it still reports can't find libpcap,so I run yum install libpcap-devel and this time it works.
My question is,what's the difference and what exactly was ./configure looking for when it says libpcap not found?
Upvotes: 0
Views: 3418
Answers (1)
Kannan Goundan
Reputation: 5232
"lib" contains the things your program needs to run (the ".so" file). "lib-devel" contains the things your program needs to compile (the header files).
Upvotes: 2
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