-----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?
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