On Sat, 17 May 2008, Szabolcs Szakacsits wrote:
> On Fri, 16 May 2008, Georg Lukas wrote:
>
> > while trying to create an openembedded package of ntfs-3g, I found a bug
> > in the install-exec-local part of src/Makefile.am. It is triggered when
> > $(rootsbindir) is set to another value than "/sbin", and makes the
> > subsequent call to $(LN_S) fail.
> >
> > The attached patch should fix the problem.
>
> Hi Georg,
>
> Thank you for the bug report and patch.
>
> May I ask why do you install mount.ntfs-3g and ntfs-3g to somewhere else
> and where?
>
> If mount.ntfs-3g is not in /sbin and they are not on the root file system
> then typically something will surely break, e.g. mount via fstab, automount
> during boot, etc. These problems are not always reproducible, depend on the
> environment and can be very frustrating for users. Typically mount helpers
> must be on the root file systems and mount(8) looks for them in /sbin.
> Recently even mount(8) in busybox added support for mount helpers.
>
> Didn't you intend to submit the patch below? Would this fix you problem?
> (Note, this could still result mount failures if ntfs-3g is not on the root
> filesystem).
Sorry, my patch is not ok. Apparently your problem is with the hard coded
'/sbin'. The question is why? By definition the mount helpers must be at
'/sbin/mount.<filesystem>'. This is hard coded in mount.c.
Thanks,
Szaka
> --- src/Makefile.am.orig 2008-05-16 19:15:03.391214841 +0200
> +++ src/Makefile.am 2008-05-16 23:51:11.937123811 +0200
> @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
>
> install-exec-local:
> $(INSTALL) -d "$(DESTDIR)$(rootsbindir)"
> - $(LN_S) -f "$(rootbindir)/ntfs-3g" "$(DESTDIR)/sbin/mount.ntfs-3g"
> + $(LN_S) -f "$(DESTDIR)$(rootbindir)/ntfs-3g"
> "$(DESTDIR)/sbin/mount.ntfs-3g"
>
> install-data-local:
> $(INSTALL) -d "$(DESTDIR)$(man8dir)"
>
>
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