Re: Problems with libuuid

[Jeroen Dekkers]

On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 03:35:19PM +0100, Bonny wrote:
> 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.

You probably don't have the development files.  There is probably a
package with the name uuid-dev or libuuid-dev or something similar.
That package should install /usr/include/uuid/uuid.h and other files
which parted needs to link against libuuid.

Jeroen Dekkers