| Installation instructions |
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| The Btrfs utility programs require the following libraries/tools to build: |
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| - libuuid - provided by util-linux, e2fsprogs/e2fslibs or libuuid |
| - libblkid - block device id library |
| - liblzo2 - LZO data compression library |
| - zlib - ZLIB data compression library |
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| For the btrfs-convert utility: |
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| - e2fsprogs - ext2/ext3/ext4 file system libraries, or called e2fslibs |
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| Generating documentation: |
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| - asciidoc - text document format tool |
| - xmlto - text document format tool |
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| XATTR and ACL libraries should be provided by the standard C library or by |
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| - libattr - extended attribute library |
| - libacl - access control list library |
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| Please note that the package names may differ according to the distribution. |
| See https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Btrfs_source_repositories#Dependencies . |
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| To build from git sources you need to generate the confiture script using the |
| autools: |
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| $ ./autogen.sh |
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| To build from the released tarballs: |
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| $ ./configure |
| $ make |
| $ make install |
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| You may disable building some parts like documentation, btrfs-convert or |
| backtrace support. See ./configure --help for more. |
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| Specific CFLAGS or LDFLAGS should be set like |
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| $ CFLAGS=... LDFLAGS=... ./configure --prefix=/usr |
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| and not as arguments to make. |
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| References: |
| * https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org |
