bug#18615: Can’t build parted

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

On 10/2/2014 6:11 PM, Price, Eric - Exelis.Contractor wrote:
> Sir:
> 
> I download a tarball from:
> 
> http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted/
> 
> I untar it – it seems to untar correctly
> 
> The instructions say to ./configure and make (from the man page)
> 
> 1.5 Building GNU Parted If you want to compile GNU Parted, this is
> generally done with: $ ./configure $ make
> 
> When I type in make I observe the following: There seems to be no
> Makefile in this directory You must run ./configure before running
> ‘make’ Make: *** [abort-due-to-no-makefile] Error 1
> 
> The is _no_ makefile in the directory
> 
> My question is how do I build it?

As with virtually all open source software, the configure script
creates the Makefile.


-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32)

iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJUO/QFAAoJEI5FoCIzSKrwG5IH/RHSB/v/8/7oXIGXdERnjIsk
NdotcFiXXHnSKt/DcePjzJiBxqdblGa/p0ga2dbI3HRxX8AP/1yXiGRbKsly9UjR
eZzn0BsGKArijBVKEx6J7Ho5dP27GVxV2mmgdUoHP613p9TLlg5bkCScHkIZgvfO
UnZ6frVrxuOOrgMAADzsjOTTeOZLyLTdwHDF4M3cT0N5ZA1TPVQdKtDnpeRF22S4
ZRm+gb2tQWVPVKNamLizdIkUiWzeIYv81WH2dtjUOkmb336UspplyY9vT3fp4spT
XX/dYoBs0k36wm+701gF6QETj3vBLcg5oJkG3cJz7hsI5NCKz/6auJY+FfLkZ6w=
=AIpg
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----