Re: compile error with parted-1.4.17

[Ahmed El-Mahmoudy]

I upgraded to autoconf 2.52 (I was using 1.xx), and the problem was
solved, thanks...

Now, when I run 'parted', I get those errors :

# parted
GNU Parted 1.4.17
Copyright (C) 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY
WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS
FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for more details.

Using /dev/hda
Warning: The operating system thinks the geometry on /dev/hda is
523/255/63.
You should check that this matches the BIOS geometry before using this
program.
Segmentation fault (core dumped)



#parted /dev/hdb
GNU Parted 1.4.17
Copyright (C) 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY
WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS
FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for more details.

Using /dev/hdb
Warning: The operating system thinks the geometry on /dev/hdb is
38792/16/63.
Therefore, cylinder 1024 ends at 503.999M.  You should check that this
matches
the BIOS geometry before using this program.
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

The displayed geometry for each drive is correct (according to what is
printed on the hard-disk, and according to /var/log/boot.log, and
according to BIOS)

I wonder what causes the crash ?

Thanks in advance,

  Ahmed El-Mahmoudy

On Sat, 11 Aug 2001, Andrew Clausen wrote:
> This indicates that __u8 hasn't been defined, which usually indicates
> that aclocal was run with an old version of autoconf.
>
> So, either your date is wrong or you modified configure.in.
>
> Solutions:
> * get a new autoconf
> * try build from a clean distribution
>
> Andrew