1.5 Building GNU Parted

If you want to compile GNU Parted, this is generally done with:

     $ ./configure
     $ make

However, there are a few options for configure:

--without-readline

turns off use of readline. This is useful for making rescue disks, etc., where few libraries are available.

--disable-debug

don't include assertions

--disable-dynamic-loading

disables dynamic loading of some libraries (only libreiserfs for now, although we hope to expand this). Dynamic loading is useful because it allows you to reuse libparted shared libraries even when you don't know if some libraries will be available. It has a small overhead (mainly linking with libdl), so it may be useful to disable it on bootdisks if you don't need the flexibility.

--disable-fs

disable all file system support

--disable-nls

turns off native language support. This is useful for use with old versions of glibc, or a trimmed down version of glibc suitable for rescue disks.

--disable-shared

turns off shared libraries. This may be necessary for use with old versions of GNU libc, if you get a compile error about a “spilled register”. Also useful for boot/rescue disks.

--disable-Werror

ignore warning messages in compilation

--enable-discover-only

support only reading/probing (reduces size considerably)

--enable-mtrace

enable malloc() debugging

--enable-read-only

disable writing (for debugging)