Re: Problems with libuuid

[Bonny]

Thanks,

I've installed a more recent version of e2fsprogs package and 
everything's fine now.

Bonny

Jeroen Dekkers ha scritto:

> On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 03:35:19PM +0100, Bonny wrote:
>  
>
> > Hi everybody,
> >
> > I had a problem during the installation of GNUParted. Making ./configure 
> > it gave to me the following error message
> >
> > $> ./configure
> >    
> >
> > > ... (everything goes right...)
> > > checking for uuid_generate in -luuid... no
> > > configure: error: GNU Parted requires libuuid - a part of the 
> > >      
> > e2fsprogs package.
> > This can probably be found on your distribution's CD or FTP site or at:
> >        http://web.mit.edu/tytso/www/linux/e2fsprogs.html
> > Note: if you are using precompiled packages you will also need the 
> > development
> > package as well (which may be called e2fsprogs-devel or something 
> > similar).
> >
> > So I looked for libuuid to check if it really isn't on my linux.
> >
> > #>cd /
> > #>find . -name \*libuuid\*
> >   /lib/libuuid.so.1  /lib/libuuid.so.1.2
> > #>find . -name e2fsprogs\*
> >  ./usr/share/doc/e2fsprogs-1.32    # a documentation dir
> >
> > The question is : if there is libuuid why the configure script didn't 
> > find them ?
> > I use a Linux 2.4.20-8 on a RedHat 9.
> >    
>
> You probably don't have the development files.  There is probably a
> package with the name uuid-dev or libuuid-dev or something similar.
> That package should install /usr/include/uuid/uuid.h and other files
> which parted needs to link against libuuid.
>
> Jeroen Dekkers
>
>  

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