Re: Problem configuring parted 2.3

[Petr Uzel]

On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 03:41:40PM +0200, address@hidden wrote:
> [...]
> checking whether to use NLS... yes
> checking where the gettext function comes from... libc
> checking for dlopen in -ldl... yes
> checking for uuid_generate in -luuid... no
> configure: error: GNU Parted requires libuuid - a part of the e2fsprogs 
> package (but
> sometimes distributed separately in uuid-devel or similar)
> 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).
> If you compile e2fsprogs yourself then you need to do 'make install' and
> 'make install-libs'.
> 
> 
> But that's what I did just before, I installed e2fsprogs 1.41.12 from source.

Hi,

AFAIK libuuid and libblkid has been moved to util-linux-ng since
version 2.16.

On SUSE, the needed package is called libuuid-devel,
on Debian, it is uuid-dev.

HTH,

Petr

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