[parted-devel] ERROR during running ./bootstrap from checked out sources

[Jim Meyering]

Joel Granados wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 07:14:30PM +0530, rohit hooda wrote:
>> I have checked out a the parted sources and was trying to build them.
>> When I try to run ./bootstrap I get the following errors and I am not able to proceed.
...
>> I am using FC9 and my system is update with the latest updates. BTW, I was able to successfully compile it inside a FC11 Virtual Machine.
>
> This ^^^^^^^^^^^ is the culprit of your problem :)  You must update to
> f11 (at least) to get all of the package versions that parted is
> currently using.  And even then I'd think you would be missing stuff
> like xz.
>
> Another thing you could do is to install autotools stuff from f11, while
> still keeping your f9 installation.

If you want to develop on F9, you should be able to build/install the
tools from source, using this script:

    http://et.redhat.com/~meyering/autotools-install