ext4magic slackbuild wont build on Slackware 15
by selfprogrammed from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6QMZ9)
I wish that just for once that a problem that I encounter would not cascade into new problems.
This is a busy time for getting software out, and I discovered one day that a file I had been working on was now a copy of another file. Do not know how that happened.
I used foremost to recover files from the 250 GB partition.
Attempts to recover just files with a specific string failed, as it ignored my conf file and parameters.
So several hours later I have thousands of recovered files.
Greped for my string and got it down to about 50 candidates.
Eventually got what seems to be the latest, and have been working with that.
So, It had been recommended to try ext4magic, which I did not have installed yet, so maybe I should install that. It might work better at this.
Downloaded the slackbuild of ext4magic.
It complains that:
You must have ext2fs version >= 1.41.9 to build ext4magic.
I have a slackware 15, with
e2fsprogs 1.46.5
which installed libext2fs.so.2.4
/usr/lib/libext2fs.so -> libext2fs.so.2
Did Slackware 15 somehow get a libextfs that is now too new to work with ext4magic?
This ext4magic from slackbuilds was supposedly for building on Slackware 15, so I do not know what might be wrong here.
What happened to the old 1.xx version of ext2fs that it supposedly had used?
Even my older Slackware 14.2 has /usr/lib/libextfs.so.2.
I could spend more time than I currently have trying to figure out what happened here, so I am hoping someone knows.
Thank you.
Addendum:
Same problem with extundelete.
Cannot find ext2fs library.
This is a busy time for getting software out, and I discovered one day that a file I had been working on was now a copy of another file. Do not know how that happened.
I used foremost to recover files from the 250 GB partition.
Attempts to recover just files with a specific string failed, as it ignored my conf file and parameters.
So several hours later I have thousands of recovered files.
Greped for my string and got it down to about 50 candidates.
Eventually got what seems to be the latest, and have been working with that.
So, It had been recommended to try ext4magic, which I did not have installed yet, so maybe I should install that. It might work better at this.
Downloaded the slackbuild of ext4magic.
It complains that:
You must have ext2fs version >= 1.41.9 to build ext4magic.
I have a slackware 15, with
e2fsprogs 1.46.5
which installed libext2fs.so.2.4
/usr/lib/libext2fs.so -> libext2fs.so.2
Did Slackware 15 somehow get a libextfs that is now too new to work with ext4magic?
This ext4magic from slackbuilds was supposedly for building on Slackware 15, so I do not know what might be wrong here.
What happened to the old 1.xx version of ext2fs that it supposedly had used?
Even my older Slackware 14.2 has /usr/lib/libextfs.so.2.
I could spend more time than I currently have trying to figure out what happened here, so I am hoping someone knows.
Thank you.
Addendum:
Same problem with extundelete.
Cannot find ext2fs library.