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authorMatthew Burgess <matthew@linuxfromscratch.org>2004-06-19 17:38:49 +0000
committerMatthew Burgess <matthew@linuxfromscratch.org>2004-06-19 17:38:49 +0000
commit8250be1c3efa6b755cfbe5ce11fecb6b9cd4e5a8 (patch)
treeecbec24d0db43ee88bd1a38ea364779e6fef5b0a /chapter06
parentf67f5cfed55cb2ac26f29d16ad1f099461e7cf98 (diff)
Brought e2fsprogs instructions inline with upstream recommendations (Bill Maltby - bug #577).
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@3814 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
Diffstat (limited to 'chapter06')
-rw-r--r--chapter06/e2fsprogs.xml20
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/chapter06/e2fsprogs.xml b/chapter06/e2fsprogs.xml
index edbb99fbd..a26b496e3 100644
--- a/chapter06/e2fsprogs.xml
+++ b/chapter06/e2fsprogs.xml
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ file system. It also supports the ext3 journaling file system.</para>
<segmentedlist>
<segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
<segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
-<seglistitem><seg>0.6 SBU</seg><seg>48.4 MB</seg></seglistitem>
+<seglistitem><seg>0.6 SBU</seg><seg>4.9 MB</seg></seglistitem>
</segmentedlist>
<segmentedlist>
@@ -29,9 +29,15 @@ Diffutils, Gawk, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make, Sed, Texinfo</seg></seglistite
<sect2 role="installation">
<title>Installation of E2fsprogs</title>
+<para>It is recommended to build E2fsprogs in a subdirectory of the source tree:
+</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>mkdir build
+cd build</userinput></screen>
+
<para>Prepare E2fsprogs for compilation:</para>
-<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --with-root-prefix="" \
+<screen><userinput>../configure --prefix=/usr --with-root-prefix="" \
--enable-elf-shlibs --disable-evms</userinput></screen>
<para>The meaning of the configure options:</para>
@@ -55,6 +61,16 @@ want.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>This creates
the shared libraries which some programs in this package use.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+<term><parameter>--disable-evms</parameter></term>
+<listitem><para>This disables the building of the Enterprise Volume Management
+System (EVMS) plugin. This plugin is not up-to-date with the latest EVMS
+internal interfaces and EVMS is not installed as part of a base LFS system, so
+the plugin is not required. See the
+<ulink url="http://evms.sourceforge.net/">EVMS homepage</ulink> for more
+information regarding EVMS itself.</para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
<para>Compile the package:</para>