Is e2fslibs needed on MacOS X? - trying to use MacPorts

[ajmas]

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I am in the process of trying to adapt the instructions to run with MacPorts on MacOS X, but 'configure' is failing because it can't find e2fslibs, yet this is not specified as a dependency in the current instructions for MacOS X.

Installation of dependencies:

sudo port install autoconf m4 automake libtool e2fsprogs

Failure I am getting when trying to run configure:

checking for strerror... yes
checking for strrchr... yes
checking for strtol... yes
checking for strtoul... yes
checking for strtoull... yes
checking for uname... yes
checking for utime... yes
checking for llseek... no
checking for lseek64... no
checking for library containing sem_post... none required
checking for library containing fuse_main... -losxfuse
checking for library containing com_err... -lcom_err
checking for library containing ext2fs_open... no
configure: error: Can't find e2fslibs, please install it

Executing strings /opt/local/lib/libext2fs.a | grep ext2fs_open I see:

_ext2fs_open_inode_scan
_ext2fs_open
_ext2fs_open2
_ext2fs_open_file

Envirornment settings:

PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/X11/bin:/usr/texbin:/Users/ajmas/npm/bin:/opt/local/bin
PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/local/lib/pkgconfig:/opt/local/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig  
CFLAGS="-idirafter/opt/local/include -idirafter/usr/local/include -idirafter/usr/local/include/osxfuse/"
LDFLAGS="-L/opt/local/lib -L/usr/local/lib"

[alperakcan]

can you please share config.log file

[danormsby]

Same issue. Config.log file as a zip archive attached.

config.zip

[riktov]

Did you try replacing /usr/local with /opt/local in

-idirafter/usr/local/include -idirafter/usr/local/include/osxfuse/

This worked for me; it made the missing e2fslibs error go away I was able to build. Though I can't get fuse-ext2 to mount the disk.

[Ole2mail]

ext2fs_open is inside e2fsprogs which is available to install from homebrew with the following command:

brew install e2fsprogs

but the configure will fail to find the libext2fs.a on a standard path so the only following one worked for me:

CFLAGS="-idirafter/opt/gnu/include -idirafter/usr/local/include/osxfuse/ -idirafter/$(brew --prefix e2fsprogs)/include" LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/opt/glib -L/usr/local/lib -L$(brew --prefix e2fsprogs)/lib" ./configure

[ylluminarious]

I was able to get fuse-ext2 to compile just fine with Macports. All I needed was to install these ports:

# port install e2fsprogs
# port install libtool

And then I compiled like so:

$ CFLAGS="-I/opt/local/include" LDFLAGS="-L/opt/local/lib" ./configure
$ make

Then do make install, etc. to install, although this varies if you want the System Preferences prefpane.

[llamafilm]

The required files are included in e2fsprogs from MacPorts. This configure command worked for me. The command above from ylluminarious didn't work for me because my fuse is installed in /usr/local/lib not from MacPorts.

CFLAGS="-idirafter/opt/local/include -idirafter/usr/local/include/osxfuse" LDFLAGS="-L/opt/local/lib -L/usr/local/lib" ./configure

[ylluminarious]

@llamafilm Yes, sorry, sometimes you need to use different paths depending on how you have things set up. I'm going to try and get this program into MacPorts in the not-too-distant future to ease the installation process, since we were rejected by Homebrew. Hopefully that will eliminate issues like this and one can simply sudo port install ext2fuse.