When trying to emerge xfsprogs in a system WITHOUT e2fsprogs installed, the following error occurrs: ___________________________________________________ (...) checking for uuid/uuid.h... yes checking for uuid_compare... no checking for uuid_compare in -luuid... no FATAL ERROR: could not find a valid UUID library. Install the Universally Unique Identifiers library package. !!! Please attach the config.log to your bug report: !!! /var/tmp/portage/xfsprogs-2.6.25/work/xfsprogs-2.6.25/config.log !!! ERROR: sys-fs/xfsprogs-2.6.25 failed. !!! Function econf, Line 485, Exitcode 0 !!! econf failed !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. ___________________________________________________ Uuid support doesn't fullfill xfsprogs requirements unless e2fsprogs is previously installed. e2fsprogs should be considered a dependency before installing xfsprogs. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install a system without e2fsprogs 2. try to emerge xfsprogs Actual Results: (...) checking for uuid/uuid.h... yes checking for uuid_compare... no checking for uuid_compare in -luuid... no FATAL ERROR: could not find a valid UUID library. Install the Universally Unique Identifiers library package. !!! Please attach the config.log to your bug report: !!! /var/tmp/portage/xfsprogs-2.6.25/work/xfsprogs-2.6.25/config.log !!! ERROR: sys-fs/xfsprogs-2.6.25 failed. !!! Function econf, Line 485, Exitcode 0 !!! econf failed !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. Expected Results: installed e2fsprogs before emerging xfsprogs
Hmm, I really don
Hmm, I really don´t know how did you manage to have a system without e2fsprogs since it is in /usr/portage/profiles/base. You broke it, you fix it. No need for such dependency in xfsprogs.
