[lfs-support] chapter 6.55 v.8.3 fatal error while building e2fsprogs

[Terence Waterhouse]

Hello everyone,

This is my second attempt to build LFS and everything went more than smoothly. All the builds and test suites gave all the desired results.

Now while building e2fsprogs in section 6.55 I get a fatal error. Here's the relevant code : 

///////////////////
...
making all in lib/support
make[2]: Entering directory '/sources/e2fsprogs-1.44.3/build/lib/support'
    SUBST ../../lib/dirpaths.h
    CC ../../../lib/support/cstring.c
    CC ../../../lib/support/mkquota.c
    CC ../../../lib/support/plausible.c
../../../lib/support/plausible.c:38:10: fatal error: blkid/blkid.h: No such file or directory
 #include "blkid/blkid.h"
          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
make[2]: *** [Makefile:386: plausible.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/sources/e2fsprogs-1.44.3/build/lib/support'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:419: all-libs-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/sources/e2fsprogs-1.44.3/build'
make: *** [Makefile:341: all] Error 2 

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This surprised me a lot in view of the ease of development up to that point. Here are a few remarks :
-- file blkid.h exists in /mnt/lfs/tools/include/blkid but not in the expected path.
-- several 'flavours' of blkid.h are present in /mnt/lfs/sources/e2fsprogs-1.44.3/lib/blkid (blkid.h.in; blkidP.h etc...)
but not blkid.h itself.
-- I copied the file into the target directory and this got me past the failure but gave another for uuidd.h, so I back-pedalled
to the original version.

I have of course searched extensively to no avail. It looks like it might be a path problem, but I can't imagine where it came from.
Can anyone help on this one ?

many thanks in advance.

Terence Waterhouse





 

 

 
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Post by Terence Waterhouse
Hello everyone,
This is my second attempt to build LFS and everything went more than smoothly. All the builds and test suites gave all the desired results.
///////////////////
...
making all in lib/support
make[2]: Entering directory '/sources/e2fsprogs-1.44.3/build/lib/support'
    SUBST ../../lib/dirpaths.h
    CC ../../../lib/support/cstring.c
    CC ../../../lib/support/mkquota.c
    CC ../../../lib/support/plausible.c
../../../lib/support/plausible.c:38:10: fatal error: blkid/blkid.h: No such file or directory
 #include "blkid/blkid.h"
          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
make[2]: *** [Makefile:386: plausible.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/sources/e2fsprogs-1.44.3/build/lib/support'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:419: all-libs-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/sources/e2fsprogs-1.44.3/build'
make: *** [Makefile:341: all] Error 2

Looks like something in 6.6 - Creating Essential files and Symlinks has
been overlooked. Check that all the commands~:
------------

ln -svf /tools/include/blkid /usr/include
ln -svf /tools/include/libmount /usr/include
ln -svf /tools/include/uuid /usr/include
install -vdm755 /usr/lib/pkgconfig
for pc in blkid mount uuid
do

Post by Terence Waterhouse
/usr/lib/pkgconfig/${pc}.pc

done

----------
have been executed correctly. I think blkid, uuid, etc are not used before e2fsprogs, so that's why there was no failure before.
I'd say also that you do not need to start again chapter 6. Just run those commands now, specially the "ln -sfv" ones, and
try again to build e2fsprogs (don't forget to remove the whole build tree and to untar again e2fsprogs).

Regards
Pierre
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[Terence Waterhouse]

Bonsoir Pierre !

I just got back from shopping to find your mail. It was exactly that. A masterly reply! I did as you said and the build went like a dream. No tests failed, so I'm back in business.
I must say that I thought (and hoped !) it may be something on those lines but I would never have found it, I fear, without help. Nonetheless, I marked that long list of commands as needing care, especially when tired. . . and thought that I had done them correctly, but I really must have skipped the last ln commands, there is no other answer.

Many thanks for your time,
Bonsoir et mille mercis

Terence

 

 

 

 

Message du 13/09/18 16:05
De : "Pierre Labastie"
Objet : Re: [lfs-support] chapter 6.55 v.8.3 fatal error while building e2fsprogs

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[Terence Waterhouse]

Message du 13/09/18 19:17
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Sorry for the top posting in the last mail, I shall end up getting the hang of it.