Possible defect in instructions in ch6 e2fsprogs-1.41.7
Bruce Dubbs
bruce.dubbs at gmail.com
Wed Jul 8 20:12:03 MDT 2009
James Robertson wrote:
> The ../configure line in the SVN-20090706 book for e2fsprogs seems to
> not work correctly. With the new --disable-libblkid and
> --disable-libuuid, I get the following error:
>
> configure: error: external uuid library not found
>
> Which does and doesn't make sense to me. If I remove the offending
> --disable command and leave the one for libblkid, I get a similar error
> for it too.
>
> When I remove both of those extra commands, configure runs great and I
> can complete a make, make check, etc and install just fine from what I
> can tell.
Well we removed e2fsprogs in Chapter 5, so you must mean Chapter 6. In Chapter
6, we moved util-linux-ng-2.16-rc2 to immediately before e2fsprogs and libuuid
and libblkid should be pickjed up from there.
Worked for me when I tested it.
-- Bruce
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