parted failure on SUSE 8.1

[Kurt Wall]

Feigning erudition, edj wrote:
% On Sunday 09 March 2003 04:30 pm, Kurt Wall wrote:
% > Feigning erudition, edj wrote:
% > 
% >  I'm going to move away from SUSE, but before I do that I must
% > resize  partitions.  SUSE provides parted 1.6.3; it doesn't seem to
% > work with  reiserfs.  The latest is 1.6.5, which acc/to GNU's site,
% > will work with  reiser if progsreiserfs is installed.  Did that. 
% > But when I tried to  configure parted, it failed - couldn't find
% > libuuid.  I have that, as  e2fsprogs is installed.  I went through
% > the documentation, configure  --help, etc. and couldn't find how to
% > pass the location to configure.  I'm probably missing something very
% > obvious here.  Why would SUSE  provide a parted which won't read the
% > default fs?  Also, SUSE doesn't% seem to provide an updated parted,
% > and some of that YAST stuff depends  on it.  I hope the newer
% > parted,  installed with checkinstall, won't  break anything.  But
% > who knows??
% > 
% >  Any advice appreciated.  Thanks.
% >
% > What is the output of ``locate libuuid''? Where is uuid.h on your
% > system?
% >
% > Kurt
% 
% [Sun Mar 09] edj:~$ locate libuuid
% /lib/libuuid.so.1
% /lib/libuuid.so.1.2
% 
% [Sun Mar 09] edj:~$ locate uuid.h
% /usr/lib/qt-3.1.1/include/quuid.h
% /usr/src/linux-2.4.19.SuSE/include/linux/xfs_support/uuid.h

Okay, well, you don't really have libuuid installed, then, becuase
you need the headers for it. The Qt stuff is worthless in this respect,
and something that lives only in your kernel sources shouldn't be
used either. If you like, I have a statically-linked parted binary
tarball located on ftp.kurtwerks.com:/pub/parted-bin-1.6.5.tar.gz that
you're welcome to use. Because it is statically-linked, parted will run
even if the proper libraries are not already installed.

Kurt
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