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Re: what is -lcrypt?

Jan Klod wrote:
> util-linux output was: You need -lcrypt. I continued with installing,

"You need -lcrypt" means "configure script has detected that to link some
programs, util-linux's Makefiles need to use -lcrypt linker option". This is
nothing to worry about.

> but "make tests" failed, because there was no /dev/loop7!

Your distro's init scripts and/or udev scripts are supposed to create that
device node. You can also create those device nodes manually, like this:

#/bin/sh
for x in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7; do mknod -m 660 /dev/loop${x} b 7 ${x}; done

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