parted failure on SUSE 8.1

[Kurt Wall]

Feigning erudition, edj wrote:
% On Sunday 09 March 2003 06:09 pm, Kurt Wall wrote:

[...]

% > 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.
% 
% Thanks.  I didn't know to look for uuid.h  This time I installed 
% e2fsprogs with "make install-libs". uuid.h now lives happily in 
% /usr/include/uuid/ and parted doesn't choke on a reiser system. 

That's the ticket. As a rule, you usually can't compile things without
header files. Autoconf could do a better job of issuing error messages
that tell you what it is *really* looking for when it says it can't 
find something. But, at least you go it worked out.

% Still, SUSE should have installed a parted and other needed  stuff which 
% would read a fs it uses by default.    Thanks again.

Agreed.

Kurt
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	Look at all those points you're losing!
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