I successfully installed the current NTFS-3g under Ubuntu but then I realized that I needed the advanced tools in order to get the configuration utility. So I tried to compile and it broke here:




dan@dell-linux:~/Tarballs/ntfs-3g-2009.3.8AR.1$ sudo make
[sudo] password for dan:
make all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/dan/Tarballs/ntfs-3g-2009.3.8AR.1'
Making all in include
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/dan/Tarballs/ntfs-3g-2009.3.8AR.1/include'
Making all in ntfs-3g
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/dan/Tarballs/ntfs-3g-2009.3.8AR.1/include/ntfs-3g'
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/dan/Tarballs/ntfs-3g-2009.3.8AR.1/include/ntfs-3g'
Making all in fuse-lite
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/dan/Tarballs/ntfs-3g-2009.3.8AR.1/include/fuse-lite'
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/dan/Tarballs/ntfs-3g-2009.3.8AR.1/include/fuse-lite'
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/dan/Tarballs/ntfs-3g-2009.3.8AR.1/include'
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/dan/Tarballs/ntfs-3g-2009.3.8AR.1/include'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/dan/Tarballs/ntfs-3g-2009.3.8AR.1/include'
Making all in libfuse-lite
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/dan/Tarballs/ntfs-3g-2009.3.8AR.1/libfuse-lite'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/dan/Tarballs/ntfs-3g-2009.3.8AR.1/libfuse-lite'
Making all in libntfs-3g
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/dan/Tarballs/ntfs-3g-2009.3.8AR.1/libntfs-3g'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/dan/Tarballs/ntfs-3g-2009.3.8AR.1/libntfs-3g'
Making all in src
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/dan/Tarballs/ntfs-3g-2009.3.8AR.1/src'
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I../include/ntfs-3g -g -O2 -Wall -MT secaudit-secaudit.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/secaudit-secaudit.Tpo -c -o secaudit-secaudit.o `test -f 'secaudit.c' || echo './'`secaudit.c
secaudit.c:240:24: error: attr/xattr.h: No such file or directory
secaudit.c: In function ‘printname’:
secaudit.c:1145: warning: format not a string literal and no format arguments
secaudit.c: In function ‘showmounted’:
secaudit.c:4967: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘getxattr’
make[2]: *** [secaudit-secaudit.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/dan/Tarballs/ntfs-3g-2009.3.8AR.1/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/dan/Tarballs/ntfs-3g-2009.3.8AR.1'
make: *** [all] Error 2

This is the output of the ./configure:

dan@dell-linux:~/Tarballs/ntfs-3g-2009.3.8AR.1$ ./configure
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... mawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep
checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
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checking for memory.h... yes
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checking for unistd.h... yes
checking minix/config.h usability... no
checking minix/config.h presence... no
checking for minix/config.h... no
checking whether it is safe to define __EXTENSIONS__... yes
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... (cached) none needed
checking dependency style of gcc... (cached) gcc3
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking whether gcc and cc understand -c and -o together... yes
checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed
checking for ld used by gcc... /usr/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r
checking for BSD-compatible nm... /usr/bin/nm -B
checking how to recognize dependent libraries... pass_all
checking dlfcn.h usability... yes
checking dlfcn.h presence... yes
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checking whether we are using the GNU Fortran 77 compiler... no
checking whether accepts -g... no
checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 1572864
checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output from gcc object... ok
checking for objdir... .libs
checking for ar... ar
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking for strip... strip
checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... no
checking for gcc option to produce PIC... -fPIC
checking if gcc PIC flag -fPIC works... yes
checking if gcc static flag -static works... yes
checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes
checking whether the gcc linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... no
checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so
checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes
checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build static libraries... yes
configure: creating libtool
appending configuration tag "CXX" to libtool
appending configuration tag "F77" to libtool
checking for mv... /bin/mv
checking for rm... /bin/rm
checking for sed... /bin/sed
checking for ldconfig... /sbin/ldconfig
checking Windows OS... no
checking fuse compatibility... internal
checking for pthread_create in -lpthread... yes
checking for ANSI C header files... (cached) yes
checking ctype.h usability... yes
checking ctype.h presence... yes
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checking fcntl.h usability... yes
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checking limits.h usability... yes
checking limits.h presence... yes
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checking locale.h usability... yes
checking locale.h presence... yes
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checking mntent.h usability... yes
checking mntent.h presence... yes
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checking stddef.h usability... yes
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checking stdarg.h usability... yes
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checking errno.h usability... yes
checking errno.h presence... yes
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checking time.h usability... yes
checking time.h presence... yes
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checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes
checking utime.h usability... yes
checking utime.h presence... yes
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checking wchar.h usability... yes
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checking byteswap.h usability... yes
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configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating include/Makefile
config.status: creating include/fuse-lite/Makefile
config.status: creating include/ntfs-3g/Makefile
config.status: creating libfuse-lite/Makefile
config.status: creating libntfs-3g/Makefile
config.status: creating libntfs-3g/libntfs-3g.pc
config.status: creating libntfs-3g/libntfs-3g.script.so
config.status: creating src/Makefile
config.status: creating src/ntfs-3g.8
config.status: creating src/ntfs-3g.probe.8
config.status: creating config.h
config.status: config.h is unchanged
config.status: executing depfiles commands
You can type now 'make' to build ntfs-3g.


I am probably missing a library but frankly my knowledge of Linux is limited and compiling is unfortunately one of my weakpoints.

You need the libattr-devel or libattr1-devel or libattr-dev or something similar package depending on your distribution.

Hi,

Actually the libattr was not designed to be mandatory (a few options would however not be available if the library is missing), but there is an error in the checking.

By installing the library, it should be ok and you will get all the options.

Anyway I will release a fixed version.

Thank you for your bug report.

Regards

Jean-Pierre

thanks I knew it was simple but I thought I better ask before I went on.

I am cautiously optimistic that this version will allow me to give access to my individual user's windows folders without making the whole drive visible to all users. I was frustrated buy the inability of Ubuntu 8.10 to do this but then I realized it was using an older version of NTFS-3g

If your interested, here is the thread describing what I am trying to do.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1111120&referrerid=325870

Thanks for your hard work. Just reading the documentation, I can appreciate the complexity of the issues between NTFS and Ext3.

Cheers