From: Joe Drew <address@hidden>
Subject: ext2fs/ext2_io.h present but cannot be compiled
To: address@hidden
Cc: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <address@hidden>
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2003 22:24:58 -0500
X-Sent: 5 days, 5 hours, 39 minutes, 52 seconds ago

In compiling gnome-utils for Debian, I ran across this:

checking for ext2fs_mkdir in -lext2fs... yes
checking ext2fs/ext2_io.h usability... no
checking ext2fs/ext2_io.h presence... yes
configure: WARNING: ext2fs/ext2_io.h: present but cannot be compiled
configure: WARNING: ext2fs/ext2_io.h: check for missing prerequisite
headers?
configure: WARNING: ext2fs/ext2_io.h: proceeding with the preprocessor's
result
configure: WARNING:     ## ------------------------------------ ##
configure: WARNING:     ## Report this to address@hidden ##
configure: WARNING:     ## ------------------------------------ ##

The relevant bits from config.log are in the attached file.

The configure script was generated by GNU Autoconf 2.57.

The bit from configure.in is:
# Check for the ext2fs library
AC_CHECK_LIB(ext2fs, ext2fs_mkdir, x_libs="-lext2fs",
  build_gfloppy=false
  AC_MSG_WARN([
*** libext2fs not found. You need e2fsprogs and e2fsprogs-devel
installed to build gfloppy.]))
# check for ext2fs header specific includes
AC_CHECK_HEADER(ext2fs/ext2_io.h, ,
  build_gfloppy=false
  AC_MSG_WARN([
*** ext2fs/ext2_io.h not found.  You need e2fsprogs-devel installed.]))
AM_CONDITIONAL(BUILD_GFLOPPY, test "$build_gfloppy" = true)

Finally, the version of e2fslibs on my machine is
1.34+1.35-WIP-2003.08.21-3.

Hope this helps.

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