Problems with libuuid

[Bonny]

Hi everybody,

I had a problem during the installation of GNUParted. Making ./configure 
it gave to me the following error message

$> ./configure
> ... (everything goes right...)
>checking for uuid_generate in -luuid... no
>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).

So I looked for libuuid to check if it really isn't on my linux.

#>cd /
#>find . -name \*libuuid\*
   /lib/libuuid.so.1  /lib/libuuid.so.1.2
#>find . -name e2fsprogs\*
  ./usr/share/doc/e2fsprogs-1.32    # a documentation dir

The question is : if there is libuuid why the configure script didn't 
find them ?
I use a Linux 2.4.20-8 on a RedHat 9.

I thank anyone that could help me

Bonny

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Alessio Bonato

Rivoli (TO), Italy

Linux Redhat 9 - Kernel Version 2.4.20-8 on i686

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