Stuart Longland <stua...@longlandclan.id.au> writes: > On 7/9/20 9:40 am, Chris Bennett wrote: >> I'm running amd64 OpenBSD and there are libraries we don't have, such as >> libbson, which can be added. >> However, I'm a little unclear on what the -dev signifies on the required >> libraries. > > I'm guessing possibly a Debian or RedHat-ism? A lot of those > distributions ship packages that are "split": .so libraries and user > binaries in one package (libfoo) and the headers and .a libraries in a > "development" package (libfoo-dev).
For Redhat, (well Fedora), the development packages are suffixed -devel. Typically you get headers and libraries you need to do compiles. -- Dan Espen
