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From: Eivind Eklund <perhaps@yes.no>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: where is generic.h ?
Date: 27 May 1997 04:34:05 +0200
Organization: GlobalOne Norway
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In-reply-to: Anders Moe's message of Mon, 26 May 1997 12:50:43 +0200
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In article <Pine.HPP.3.96.970526110132.20995A-100000@ydale.si.sintef.no> Anders Moe <anm@si.sintef.no> writes:

> 
> Hi everyone. Since DOS - fdisk just toasted my Linux - partition I've 
> decided to give FreeBSD a try again. I had to abandon 2.1.5 in favor 
> of Linux because it (FBSD) failed to compile an all-important application
> (diffpack, http://www.oslo.sintef.no/diffpack/). It failed because
> a spesific file, ' generic.h' was missing. I'd expect it to be available in
> 2.2.x, but so far I haven't found it. Could someone please enlighten me
> on this ? Thanks in advance.

This is for g++ - it is in /usr/include/g++/generic.h, both on RedHat
(Linux) and on FreeBSD 2.2.2.  Shouldn't be a problem.

(I'm assuming you're not referring to the ne that comes with xview...)

Eivind.