Re: [bh@agl.ucl.ac.be: why parted does not exist in powerpc.deb?]
On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 02:42:15PM +1000, Timshel Knoll wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 09:00:49PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 11:53:40AM +1000, Timshel Knoll wrote:
> >
> > > I'm the maintainer of the debian GNU parted package, and I just recieved the
> > > forwarded message below asking why there is no powerpc-compiled parted package ...
> > > Parted should be quite useful on powerpc now, since it supports Mac disklabels
> > > (since 1.4.0), so ext2 partition resizing should be quite possible on powerpc.
> > > Any reason why the ppc buildd doesn't build parted?
> >
> > Well, my first shot at it gives me:
> > $ ./debian/rules binary
> > ...
> > 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).
> > If you compile e2fsprogs yourself then you need to do 'make install' and
> > 'make install-libs'.
> >
> > And I really do have e2fsprogs installed and /lib/libuuid.so.1{,.2} exists.
>
> The .so.[12] files don't work when linking. You must have the normal .so symlink
> for this to work. That's why parted Build-Depends: uuid-dev, which is provided
> by libuuid-dev. This provides the /usr/lib/libuuid.so symlink. Try installing
> libuuid-dev, that should fix this error.
Oops, I missed those somehow... w/ all of the Build-Depends installed, parted
packages fine here (unstable).
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Tom Rini (TR1265)
http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/
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