On Dec 2, 2003 at 08:28, Robert P. J. Day in a soothing rage wrote: > just so others can take a crack at what i'm playing with, based on what >i read at www.sistina.com, there is no need for me to download and build >the "device-mapper" software since it's already included in the 2.6 kernel >under "RAID and LVM". if you're running 2.6, feel free to do a quick configure >and build it in yourself. > > having done that, however, the next step would seem to be downloading >the latest LVM2 tarball from ftp://ftp.sistina.com/pub/LVM2/tools. if i do that, >unpack, and run "configure" and "make", the make aborts with: >... >make[1]: Entering directory `/home/rpjday/SW/lvm/LVM2.2.00.08/lib' >gcc -c -I. -I../include -DLVM1_INTERNAL -DDEVMAPPER_SUPPORT -DO_DIRECT_SUPPORT -DHAVE_LIBDL -DHAVE_GETOPTLONG -fPIC -Wall -Wundef -Wshadow -Wcast-align -Wwrite-strings -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wnested-externs -Winline -O2 activate/activate.c -o activate/activate.o >gcc -c -I. -I../include -DLVM1_INTERNAL -DDEVMAPPER_SUPPORT -DO_DIRECT_SUPPORT -DHAVE_LIBDL -DHAVE_GETOPTLONG -fPIC -Wall -Wundef -Wshadow -Wcast-align -Wwrite-strings -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wnested-externs -Winline -O2 cache/lvmcache.c -o cache/lvmcache.o >In file included from activate/activate.c:9: >activate/activate.h:13:28: libdevmapper.h: No such file or directory ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Fix this then try again. N.Emile... -- Registered Linux User # 125653 (http://counter.li.org) Switch to: http://www.speakeasy.net/refer/190653 "I'm willing to sacrifice anything for this cause, even other people's lives." 10:00:30 up 9 days, 14:03, 4 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00