[arch-general] How to obtain development headers for package

Loui Chang louipc.ist at gmail.com
Tue Feb 23 18:25:24 EST 2010


On Tue 23 Feb 2010 23:11 +0000, Michishige Kaito wrote:
> Maybe I'm just not understanding how Arch works, so please forgive my
> ignorance. I come from ubuntu, and there you get development headers for
> most packages by following the naming convention, which is package-dev. A
> quick apt-cache search package | grep dev would yield the right package.
> Now, I'm trying to obtain these on my fresh arch, but can't seem to find
> anything through pacman search or google. Anyone could hint me in the right
> direction?
> 
> If it's useful, I need the dev headers for sqlite3.

The standard practice in Arch is to keep development headers in the
package, so they should be included in the sqlite3 package. Contact the
package maintainer if anything is missing. Enjoy!


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