Hi all (mostly Szaka). > We could have an option to disable the creation of /sbin/mount.ntfs-3g. > Creating it anywhere else is no use for anything and always makes mount(8) > to fail. If user disables it then he acknowledges that mount(8) and > /etc/fstab will not work with ntfs-3g
Building my package for ntfs-3g on Mac OS X is a bit more difficult with this hard coded /sbin stuff. For every release I have to patch the corresponding .am-file and reconfigure because in my build process I build two different versions of the code, one with the ublio patches turned on and one without any patches. I therefore place the differently built binaries in two different directories with "make install destdir=./dir1" and so on. Having a /sbin link annoyingly appear for each of these builds would require me to run the build processes as superuser for no reason at all, so I patch it away. Also for Mac OS X, the name /sbin/mount.ntfs-3g is pointless anyway as the naming scheme is in fact "/sbin/mount_" and not "/sbin/mount.". (I create this link in my build scripts) I think there could be cases where Linux users too would want to do a "make install destdir=...", to check what you would get before you actually install it on your system (paranoia is always good). And in that case you would expect the sbin link to appear under destdir rather than in the root of the system. - Erik Larsson ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ ntfs-3g-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ntfs-3g-devel
