[bc91669] | 1 | <sect2><title> </title><para> </para></sect2>
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[6370fa6] | 3 | <sect2>
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| 4 | <title>Installation of E2fsprogs</title>
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| 5 |
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[9930287] | 6 | <para>It is recommended to build E2fsprogs outside of the
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[4f8a3af9] | 7 | source tree:</para>
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[9930287] | 8 |
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| 9 | <para><screen><userinput>mkdir ../e2fsprogs-build &&
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| 10 | cd ../e2fsprogs-build</userinput></screen></para>
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| 11 |
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[bc91669] | 12 | <para>Prepare E2fsprogs to be compiled:</para>
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[6370fa6] | 13 |
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[9930287] | 14 | <para><screen><userinput>../e2fsprogs-&e2fsprogs-version;/configure --prefix=/usr --with-root-prefix="" \
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| 15 | --enable-elf-shlibs</userinput></screen></para>
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[bc91669] | 16 |
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[9930287] | 17 | <para>The meaning of the configure options are:</para>
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[bc91669] | 18 |
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[9930287] | 19 | <itemizedlist>
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[bc91669] | 20 |
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[e4b9338] | 21 | <listitem><para><userinput>--with-root-prefix=""</userinput>: Certain
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[4f8a3af9] | 22 | programs (such as the e2fsck program) are considered essential programs.
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| 23 | When, for example, <filename class="directory">/usr</filename> isn't
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| 24 | mounted, these essential program have to be available. They belong in
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| 25 | directories like <filename class="directory">/lib</filename> and
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| 26 | <filename class="directory">/sbin</filename>. If this option isn't passed
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| 27 | to E2fsprogs's configure, the programs are placed in the
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| 28 | <filename class="directory">/usr</filename> directory, which is not what we
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[9930287] | 29 | want.</para></listitem>
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[bc91669] | 30 |
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[e4b9338] | 31 | <listitem><para><userinput>--enable-elf-shlibs</userinput>: This creates
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[9930287] | 32 | the shared libraries which some programs in this package make use
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| 33 | of.</para></listitem>
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[bc91669] | 34 |
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[9930287] | 35 | </itemizedlist>
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[bc91669] | 36 |
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[9930287] | 37 | <para>Continue with compiling the package:</para>
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| 38 |
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| 39 | <para><screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen></para>
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| 40 |
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| 41 | <para>Begin installing the package:</para>
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| 42 |
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| 43 | <para><screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen></para>
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[bc91669] | 44 |
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[9930287] | 45 | <para>Install the shared libraries:</para>
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[bc91669] | 46 |
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[9930287] | 47 | <para><screen><userinput>make install-libs</userinput></screen></para>
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[bc91669] | 48 |
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[9930287] | 49 | <para>Update the <filename>/usr/share/info/dir</filename> file to
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| 50 | include E2fsprogs' info pages in the index:</para>
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[bc91669] | 51 |
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[9930287] | 52 | <para><screen><userinput>install-info /usr/share/info/libext2fs.info /usr/share/info/dir</userinput></screen></para>
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[6370fa6] | 53 |
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| 54 | </sect2>
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| 55 |
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