| 1 | <sect2><title> </title><para> </para></sect2>
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| 2 |
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| 3 | <sect2>
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| 4 | <title>Installation of E2fsprogs</title>
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| 5 |
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| 6 | <para>It is recommended to build E2fsprogs outside of the
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| 7 | source tree:</para>
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| 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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| 12 | <para>Prepare E2fsprogs for compilation:</para>
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| 13 |
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| 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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| 16 |
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| 17 | <para>The meaning of the configure options:</para>
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| 18 |
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| 19 | <itemizedlist>
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| 20 | <listitem><para><userinput>--with-root-prefix=""</userinput>: Certain
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| 21 | programs (such as the e2fsck program) are considered essential programs.
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| 22 | When, for example, <filename class="directory">/usr</filename> isn't
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| 23 | mounted, these essential program have to be available. They belong in
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| 24 | directories like <filename class="directory">/lib</filename> and
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| 25 | <filename class="directory">/sbin</filename>. If this option isn't passed
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| 26 | to E2fsprogs's configure, the programs are placed in the
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| 27 | <filename class="directory">/usr</filename> directory, which is not what we
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| 28 | want.</para></listitem>
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| 29 |
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| 30 | <listitem><para><userinput>--enable-elf-shlibs</userinput>: This creates
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| 31 | the shared libraries which some programs in this package make use
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| 32 | of.</para></listitem>
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| 33 | </itemizedlist>
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| 34 |
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| 35 | <para>Compile the package:</para>
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| 36 |
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| 37 | <para><screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen></para>
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| 38 |
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| 39 | <para>This package has a test suite available which can perform a number of
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| 40 | checks to ensure it built correctly. Should you choose to run it, the
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| 41 | following command will do so:</para>
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| 42 |
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| 43 | <para><screen><userinput>make check</userinput></screen></para>
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| 44 |
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| 45 | <para>Install most of the package:</para>
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| 46 |
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| 47 | <para><screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen></para>
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| 48 |
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| 49 | <para>And install also the shared libraries:</para>
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| 50 |
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| 51 | <para><screen><userinput>make install-libs</userinput></screen></para>
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| 52 |
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| 53 | </sect2>
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