Your message dated Sun, 15 Feb 2009 13:14:28 +0100
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and subject line Re: Bug#515048: wipe2fs: does not install from source
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regarding wipe2fs: does not install from source
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Package: wipe2fs
Version: 0.2.1-1
Severity: important
Justification: fails to build from source
$ sudo apt-get -b source wipe2fs
Reading package lists... Done
....
../configure --build i486-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr
....
checking ext2fs/ext2fs.h usability... no
checking ext2fs/ext2fs.h presence... no
checking for ext2fs/ext2fs.h... no
configure: error: ext2fs.h not found
make: *** [build] Error 1
Build command 'cd wipe2fs-0.2.1 && dpkg-buildpackage -b -uc' failed.
E: Child process failed
$ locate ext2fs
....
/usr/include/ext2fs/ext2_fs.h
/usr/include/ext2fs/ext2fs.h
....
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers oldstable
APT policy: (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26.5-flamur5
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
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--- Begin Message ---
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 11:50:43 +0200, techtonik wrote:
> >> > Is package comerr-dev installed on your system?
> >>
> >> Seems like it is.
> >
> > Then the file /usr/include/et/com_err.h is present on your system?
> > configure doesn't find it.
> >
> > How do you try to build the package? What commands etc. do you use?
> >
> I checked the files from comerr-dev package - only manuals from man/
> and doc-base/ were installed. It is a mystery to me how did it happen,
> and why aptitude reports the status as installed. I made
> sudo aptitude reinstall comerr-dev
>
> Now everything builds ok.
I'm closing this bug then.
> However, I can not see that this package does anything. I would like
> to use it to shrink my virtual machine drive image. Now that I've
> started it CPU load is at zero and nothing seems to happen with disk
> subsystem. I can leave it running for another couple of hours, but I
> doubt anything will change. The system seems to be idle.
wipe2fs is not intended for virtual machines. It does work on real disk
partitions. I cannot tell about not-intended interactions with growing
virtual disk images.
Martin
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