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.
i have been building parted 1.4.* on potato from source for a very long time, i have not had this problem so long as the appropriate -dev packages are installed. do you have uuid-dev installed? -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
pgpHNGpPwnhvL.pgp
Description: PGP signature
