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). -- Tom Rini (TR1265) http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/
