1 Installation instructions
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4 The Btrfs utility programs require the following libraries/tools to build:
6 - libuuid - provided by util-linux, e2fsprogs/e2fslibs or libuuid
7 - libblkid - block device id library
8 - liblzo2 - LZO data compression library
9 - zlib - ZLIB data compression library
11 For the btrfs-convert utility:
13 - e2fsprogs - ext2/ext3/ext4 file system libraries, or called e2fslibs
15 Generating documentation:
17 - asciidoc - text document format tool
18 - xmlto - text document format tool
20 XATTR and ACL libraries should be provided by the standard C library or by
22 - libattr - extended attribute library
23 - libacl - access control list library
25 Please note that the package names may differ according to the distribution.
26 See https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Btrfs_source_repositories#Dependencies .
28 To build from git sources you need to generate the confiture script using the
33 To build from the released tarballs:
39 You may disable building some parts like documentation, btrfs-convert or
40 backtrace support. See ./configure --help for more.
42 Specific CFLAGS or LDFLAGS should be set like
44 $ CFLAGS=... LDFLAGS=... ./configure --prefix=/usr
46 and not as arguments to make.
49 * https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org