Many files:
Checked in e2fsprogs 0.5c
diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 24d13ea..a6feeb3 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -1,31 +1,30 @@
- To install the second extended file system management program,
+ To install the second extended file system management programs,
just follow the steps:
-1) Edit the file MCONFIG
+1) Change directory into the top of the e2fsprogs source tree
- This file contains definitions used in the various makefiles. These
-definitions have reasonable default value but you may want to adjust them to
-your system configuration.
+2) Create a build directory and cd into it:
- In particular, if you don't have the tools to build shared
-libraries, you'll want to comment out the "BUILD_DLL_SHLIBS = YES"
-line.
+ mkdir build; cd build
-2) Compile the programs
+3) Run the configure script
- Run `make world' to (a) create the dependencies files, (b)
-compile the libraries and the programs, and (c) run a test suite on
-e2fsck. The test suite runs a series of tests; for each one, e2fsck
-should return an exit status of 1 on the first pass, and an exit
-status of 0 on the second pass. The one exception to this is the
-"okgroup.img" test, which should return an exit status of 0 for both
-passes.
+ ../configure
-3) Install the programs
+ If you wish to turn on DLL shared libraries, add the option
+flag --enable-dll-shlibs. If you wish to turn on ELF shared
+libraries, add the option --enable-elf-shlibs. If you wish to build
+profiling libraries, add the option --enable-profile.
+
+4) Compile the programs
+
+ make
+
+5) Install the programs
Run `make install'
-4) Install the include files and libraries
+6) Install the include files and libraries
You can run `make install-libs' to install the include files and
libraries. Please note that this installation is not needed for the
@@ -33,14 +32,15 @@
programs using the libraries or if you want to compile other program
using these libraries (like the 4.4BSD dump and restore port).
-5) Remove any pre-formatted man pages. Some distributions will have
-pre-formatted manual pages which will always be displayed in
-preference to newer man pages in /usr/man. If this is the case, you
-may need to manually remove them in order to see the correct manual
-pages. The shell script in install-utils/remove_preformat_manpages
-may be helpful in doing so.
+7) Remove any pre-formatted man pages.
-5) Make sure your /etc/fstab file is correct.
+ Some distributions will have pre-formatted manual pages which
+will always be displayed in preference to newer man pages in /usr/man.
+If this is the case, you may need to manually remove them in order to
+see the correct manual pages. The shell script in
+install-utils/remove_preformat_manpages may be helpful in doing so.
+
+8) Make sure your /etc/fstab file is correct.
Some distributions install an /etc/fstab which is missing the
fifth and sixth field of filesystem entry, which are the dump
@@ -56,6 +56,6 @@
/dev/hda4 / ext2 defaults 1 1
- There is a script in insatll-utils/convfstab (donated by
+ There is a script in install-utils/convfstab (donated by
Michael Weller) that may help you correct your /etc/fstab file.