[linux-lvm] Building lvm2 against 2.6.10...

[Gerald Schepens]

My distro is Red Hat 9.

I do have the device mapper built. Under 2.6.10, it's called dm-mod.

I took interest in your comment about header files. Where do you get 
your /usr/include files if not from the kernel? Do they come with your 
distro? (Maybe Red Hat 9 is just too old.)

Luca Berra wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 11:23:49PM -0700, Gerald Schepens wrote:
>
>> Luca Berra wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 01:48:07AM -0700, Gerald Schepens wrote:
>>>
>>>> The configure script fails for lvm2 with the following...
>>>>
>>>> checking linux/fs.h usability... no
>>>> checking linux/fs.h presence... no
>>>> checking for linux/fs.h... no
>>>> configure: error: bailing out
>>>>
>>>> There isn't much of use in the config.log.
>>>
>>>
>>> well, there should be something, maybe something referring to pgoff_t?
>>>
>>> check you have defined pgoff_t in /usr/include/linux/types.h
>>>
>>
>> Actually, I just wasn't looking far enough up in the config.log. I 
>> found a few of the problems but I haven't been able to get the thing 
>> to compile. Here's the skinny:
>>
>> - The asm directory doesn't exist in the linux-2.6.10 subdirectory. 
>> There are only asm-ppc, asm-x86_64, asm-i386, etc. So I made a 
>> symlink to the appropriate one in /usr/include.
>
>
> i don't know which linux distro you are using, but relying on the kernel
> for includes is bad practice. anyway if you do you better do at least a
> make oldconfig in the kernel tree.
>
>> - There is no header file that I could find anyway, called 
>> libdevmapper.h. I symlinked it to device-mapper.h.
>
> you have to build and install the device mapper.
>
>> - Now, there's some kind of problem with the definition of sector_t.
>
>
> sorry my scrying orb is out of order.
>
> L.
>