Subject: Re: CVS commit: basesrc
To: Tim Rightnour <root@garbled.net>
From: None <itojun@iijlab.net>
List: source-changes
Date: 11/10/2000 16:37:04
>On 09-Nov-00 Jaromir Dolecek wrote:
>> Log Message:
>> Call pwd_mkdb with proper flag, so that it creates database in same
>> endianness as compile target. This is primarily for cross compiles.
>> Hopefully this method (looking into
>> ${DESTDIR}/usr/include/machine/endian_machdep.h) is okay.
>The method looks OK to me.. I would have liked to see it use ${PWD_MKDB}
>instead of calling pwd_mkdb directly however...

	does it really work for wide variety of architectures?  there are
	architectures where machine/endian_machdep.h has #include statement
	only (like mips family).  not sure what we should do... is there
	any chance to put endian indication into pwd.db and make password
	library bi-endian?

itojun