Re: [linux-lvm] Building lvm2 against 2.6.10...

[Luca Berra <bluca@comedia.it>]

On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 11:23:49PM -0700, Gerald Schepens wrote:
>Luca Berra wrote:
>
>>On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 01:48:07AM -0700, Gerald Schepens wrote:
>>
>>>The configure script fails for lvm2 with the following...
>>>
>>>checking linux/fs.h usability... no
>>>checking linux/fs.h presence... no
>>>checking for linux/fs.h... no
>>>configure: error: bailing out
>>>
>>>There isn't much of use in the config.log.
>>
>>well, there should be something, maybe something referring to pgoff_t?
>>
>>check you have defined pgoff_t in /usr/include/linux/types.h
>>
>
>Actually, I just wasn't looking far enough up in the config.log. I found 
>a few of the problems but I haven't been able to get the thing to 
>compile. Here's the skinny:
>
>- The asm directory doesn't exist in the linux-2.6.10 subdirectory. 
>There are only asm-ppc, asm-x86_64, asm-i386, etc. So I made a symlink 
>to the appropriate one in /usr/include.

i don't know which linux distro you are using, but relying on the kernel
for includes is bad practice. anyway if you do you better do at least a
make oldconfig in the kernel tree.

>- There is no header file that I could find anyway, called 
>libdevmapper.h. I symlinked it to device-mapper.h.
you have to build and install the device mapper.

>- Now, there's some kind of problem with the definition of sector_t.

sorry my scrying orb is out of order.

L.

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