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.
Thanks,
Timshel
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