Compiling parted

[Dan Knapp]

  So, I had tried the precompiled versions of parted, but was unable to
use them due to the cylinder-not-aligned problem (which Partition Magic
happily created for me, with a minimum of warning, and which no tool I'm
aware of for any OS can do anything about).  So when I read the announcement
for 1.2.14-pre3, I thought I'd just build it and see whether it could print
a partition table.  (I have rather a large amount of data on the drive in
question, which I can't at present back up, so I wouldn't have actually
changed anything with a -pre version... but it would have been some nice
feedback to give to the list...)  Unfortunately, I discovered that I can't
compile parted, apparantly due to libuuid not being usable.  I suppose this
is off-topic, but can anybody help me get parted to build?

tatara-ba% ./configure
[...]
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).

tatara-ba% ls -l /lib
[...]
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         7664 Dec  3 22:21 libutil-2.2.so
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           14 Dec 11 11:20 libutil.so.1 ->
libutil-2.2.so
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           14 Dec 15 14:55 libuuid.so.1 ->
libuuid.so.1.2
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         9064 Dec  4 16:38 libuuid.so.1.2
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           16 Dec 15 14:49 libwrap.so.0 ->
libwrap.so.0.7.6
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        23052 Aug  8 01:56 libwrap.so.0.7.6
drwxr-xr-x    4 root     root         4096 Nov 23 20:44 modules
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Dec 15 16:42 security
tatara-ba% cat > foo.c
int main(void) { return 0; }
tatara-ba% gcc -lutil foo.c
tatara-ba% gcc -luuid foo.c
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -luuid
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
tatara-ba% 

  ... and I can compile a trivial program with -lutil, so gcc must be scanning
that directory.

  This is Linux - Debian, to be exact.  The e2fsprogs package is installed.


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