Debian Bug report logs - #24689
ntfs is i386-specific

Package: ntfs2.0.33; Maintainer for ntfs2.0.33 is (unknown);

Reported by: Roman.Hodek@informatik.uni-erlangen.de

Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 09:03:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: unknown

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Report forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org:
Bug#24689; Package ntfs. (full text, mbox, link).

Acknowledgement sent to Roman.Hodek@informatik.uni-erlangen.de:
New bug report received and forwarded. (full text, mbox, link).

Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

Package: ntfs
Version: 971218-4

I just tried to build the ntfs package for m68k and noticed that it is
really i386 specific. The header common/types.h has arch-dependend
type definitions and issues a #error if the arch is not i386.

Therefore, the Architecture field in debian/control should be "i386"
instead of "any".

As it seems, ntfs shouldn't be hard to port. One just has to define
which types are 8, 16, 32, and 64 bits wide on a given arch, and some
other macros for handling endianess. But it has to be done first, and
now --short before the hamm release-- I have to admit that I have more
important things to do... If you like you can come back to me for this
some time later.

But does ntfs make sense at all on non-WinNT archs (i386 and alpha)?

Roman

Bug reassigned from package `ntfs' to `ntfs2.0.33'. Request was from James Troup <james@nocrew.org> to control@bugs.debian.org. (full text, mbox, link).

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Debian Bug report logs - #24689 ntfs is i386-specific

Debian Bug report logs - #24689
ntfs is i386-specific