development packages

[Mark Knecht]

On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 19:07:17 -0600, Otto Haliburton
<ottohaliburton at comcast.net> wrote:
> Mark, I don't know what you are doing, but I definitely did not experience
> what you are going through when I installed fc2 or fc3. When you installed
> you did the up2date thing I assume, and then I installed all of the packages
> using the system thing.  So I don't know what is happening to you.
> 

I need to build ndiswrapper, or that's what I've done in the past.
Maybe there's an RPM somewhere I should try installing. I'll look in
the page you pointed me to a minute ago.

However, and this has happened to me pretty much every time I've
installed FC, is that I choose the Desktop installation to build the
machine and it installs NO tools. I don't get gcc, automake, autoconf,
etc., so I cannot build source and have to struggle through RPM to try
and get the stuff I need. That's the state I'm in right now and trying
to get beyond.

It would be great if there was some macro command that said 'update
this machine and give me the toolset required to build code', but
there doesn't seem to be a way to do that AFAICT.

Thanks,
Mark