mount_smbfs

[n0oct at sbcglobal.net]

On Wed, 4 May 2005 15:27:23 -0700
John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j at resnet.uoregon.edu> wrote:

> n0oct at sbcglobal.net wrote this message on Wed, May 04, 2005 at 14:45
-0500:
> > Some time ago I asked the silly question: 'does mount_smbfs work on
> > sparc64?'.  The simple answer is 'no.'  The 'make' fails with 
> > 
> >  #error "Macros for Big-Endians are incomplete"
> > 
> > which, to my limited knowledge, says that it ain't gonna compile on
a
> > system like a sparc64.
> > 
> >  However, I have been doing some digging at work, and lo and behold,
Mac
> > OSX has a 'mount_smbfs' command, which leads me to ask this
question: 
> > is the Big-endian/Little-endian thing different between Mac PowerPC
> > processors [G5]  and sparc64?  If not, is there a way I can beat on
the
> 
> Nope...  big-endian is big-endian, be it sparc64, arm, powerpc or any
> other...
> 
> > code to make mount_smbfs compile for sparc64?  IANAP by any stretch
of
> > the imagination, but if someone is willing to guide me, I can
certainly
> > try.  Thanks.
> 
> Very likely if the code base is the same...  You probably just need to
> look around the #error for the defines, and see what MacOSX has
added...
> 
> Probably just need to copy the #define lines between the #else and
#endif
> (or #if and #else)...
> 
> Good luck...

Thanks!  I found the section in smb_lib.h on the FreeBSD machine,
finding it on the Mac is another challenge.  Doesn't appear to be a
whole lot of source code. . .


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72, Jim N0OCT