It requires the fallocate syscall which is only supported from glibc-2.10. I encountered that when upgrading a dated Gentoo installation with glibc-2.9. e2fsprogs should force a glibc upgrade. ../lib/libext2fs.so: undefined reference to `fallocate' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [e2fsck] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/sys-fs/e2fsprogs-1.42/work/e2fsprogs-1.42/e2fsck' make[1]: *** [all-progs-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/sys-fs/e2fsprogs-1.42/work/e2fsprogs-1.42' make: *** [all] Error 2 emake failed Reproducible: Always
no, it shouldn't. it has logic for dealing with missing fallocate(), but the logic goes wrong when you have new kernel headers.
should be all set now in the tree; thanks for the report! Commit message: Fix building on older glibcs w/out fallocate http://sources.gentoo.org/sys-fs/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs-1.42.1.ebuild?r1=1.2&r2=1.3 http://sources.gentoo.org/sys-fs/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs-1.42.ebuild?r1=1.8&r2=1.9 http://sources.gentoo.org/sys-fs/e2fsprogs/files/e2fsprogs-1.42-no-fallocate.patch?rev=1.1
