Internet and Application Software Design Services 2010-03-25T13:47:17-04:00 Robert C. Wahler robert@gearheadforhire.com http://www.gearheadforhire.com/ tag:www.gearheadforhire.com,2010-03-25:1269539237 2010-03-25T13:47:17-04:00 <h3>The Task</h3> <p>You are doing user-space filesystem encryption. You want to use a more recent version of EncFS than the one provided in the Ubuntu 8.04 repositories. No problem, just compile one yourself.</p> <h3>The Problem</h3> <p>The most recent version in the EncFS will not compile on Ubuntu 8.04. Version r53 12/7/09 configure.ac breaks with:</p> <pre><code>checking whether xattr interface takes additional options... no ./configure: line 24466: syntax error near unexpected token 'newline' </code></pre> <p>This issue has been reported to the EncFS maintainer, in the interim, you can compile a fairly recent version by following the steps below.</p> <h3>Reference Links</h3> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.arg0.net/encfs">http://www.arg0.net/encfs</a></li> <li><a href="http://code.google.com/p/encfs/source/checkout">http://code.google.com/p/encfs/source/checkout</a></li> </ul> <h3>Preparation</h3> <p>Get the build tools</p> <pre><code>sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf automake1.9 libtool gettext \ cvs pkg-config </code></pre> <p>Verify the kernel has FUSE support</p> <pre><code>cat /proc/filesystems | grep fuse </code></pre> <p>you should see something like this:</p> <pre><code>nodev fuse fuseblk nodev fusectl </code></pre> <p>Install EncFS dependencies</p> <pre><code>sudo apt-get install libboost-dev libboost-filesystem-dev \ libboost-serialization-dev libfuse-dev \ fuse-utils librlog-dev libssl-dev </code></pre> <h3>Building</h3> <p>Build version SVN r50 (f97ae2780) by pulling down with git and checking out the most recent version that will compile on Ubuntu 8.04</p> <div class="UltraViolet"> <pre class="dawn"> cd ~/src git-svn clone --no-metadata <span class="MarkupUnderline">http://encfs.googlecode.com/svn/trunk</span> encfs cd encfs git checkout -b work_around_build f97ae2780 autoreconf -if ./configure make sudo make prefix=/usr install </pre> </div> <p>Done!</p>