The work Olaf did would probably be of interest to anyone trying to port Samba code to non-Posix platforms, particularly small platforms such as appliance systems.
Chris -)----- On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 06:24:10PM +0100, Olaf Barthel wrote: : > If I manage to attend SambaXP this year and there's a guarantee that I'm > not going to be persecuted for boring listeners to death, I may end up > telling the whole story of how the current Samba port came together. But > in brief, it worked like this: the initial Amiga Samba ports were not > particularly stable, so I set about porting Samba using the most mature > Amiga 'C'�compiler and a wrapper to go between the Samba core code and > the Amiga operating system. This worked rather well, but I hit a wall > with Samba 2.2.x which could not ported in this fashion. So I had to > write my own 'C' compiler runtime library which made porting possible. > As a side-effect, that library also made it possible to port GCC natively > to the Amiga. So now we've got Samba 2.0.7 running stable and Samba 2.2.5 > looking good enough to use (it's rather bulky, though). > > -- > Home: Olaf Barthel, Gneisenaustrasse 43, D-31275 Lehrte > Net: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Home), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Work) -- Samba Team -- http://www.samba.org/ -)----- Christopher R. Hertel jCIFS Team -- http://jcifs.samba.org/ -)----- ubiqx development, uninq. ubiqx Team -- http://www.ubiqx.org/ -)----- [EMAIL PROTECTED] OnLineBook -- http://ubiqx.org/cifs/ -)----- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
