Looking up libraries and header files

David Southwell david at vizion2000.net
Thu Oct 1 14:50:54 UTC 2009


 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org 
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Mak Kolybabi
> Sent: 01 October 2009 07:07
> To: david at vizion2000.net
> Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Looking up libraries and header files
> 
> On 2009-10-01 06:59, david at vizion2000.net wrote:
> > What is the simplest way to found out which port installs specific 
> > harder or library files?
> 
> pkg_info has a --which flag that tells you what package a 
> file came from:
> % pkg_info --which /usr/local/include/pcre.h 
> /usr/local/include/pcre.h was installed by package pcre-7.9
> 
> --
> Matthew Anthony Kolybabi (Mak)
> <mak at kolybabi.com>
Thanks Mat

Now I have two solutions for the  price of one question

Brill!!
> 



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