Re: Problems with libuuid

[Yury V. Umanets]

On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 17:35, 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.
> 
> I thank anyone that could help me
hello!

take a look into config.log after configure is failed. Grep it on uuid
occurrences and probably you'll find something interesting like
inability to link against existent libuuid.
> 
> Bonny
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umka