Is there a C++ dependency index somewhere?

When trying new software and compiling with the classic ./configure, make, make install process, I frequently see something like:

error: ____.h: No such file or directory

Sometimes, I get really lucky and apt-get install ____ installs the missing piece and all is well. However, that doesn't always happen and I end up googling 开发者_如何学Cto find the package that contains what I need. And sometimes the package is the wrong version or flavor and is already used by another package that I downloaded.

How do people know which packages contain which .h files or whatever resource the compiler needs? Is there a dependency resolver website or something that people use to decode failed builds to missing packages? Is there a more modern method of automatically downloading and installing transitive dependencies for a build (somewhat like Java's Maven)?

You can also use "auto-apt ./configure" (on Ubuntu, and probably also on Debian?) and it will attempt to download dependencies automatically.

If it's a package in Debian, you can use apt-get build-dep to get all deps.

Otherwise, read the README that comes with the program -- hopefully, it lists all the deps for that program.

The required packages will hopefully be listed in the documentation for building the package. If it says you require foo, you'll probably want to look for foo and foo-devel, and perhaps libfoo-devel. If that doesn't help, in Fedora I'd do something like

yum install install /usr/include/_____.h

(yum will look for the package containing said file). If none of the above works, look for the file name in Google, that should tell you the package where it comes from. But then the going will get rough...