Subject: Re: netatalk support
To: Bill Studenmund <skippy@macro.stanford.edu>
From: Tom T. Thai <tomthai@future.net>
List: current-users
Date: 09/03/1997 02:45:16
I had thought that Netatalk would have patched in NetBSD stuff, but I just
got the latest beta and didn't see NetBSD in there.. didn't compile
either. ;<

On Sun, 11 May 1997, Bill Studenmund wrote:

> On Thu, 8 May 1997, Scott Reynolds wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 8 May 1997, William O Ferry wrote:
> > 
> > >     I remember noticing a while ago that netatalk files had been added
> > > in /src/sys, and verified that they're on my machine (sup'ed Monday). 
> > > Is this just the kernel support necessary to compile the regular
> > > netatalk programs, or have they wound up in the /src tree too (if so,
> > > where)?  Is the netatalk complete, or is there still more to do?
> > 
> > With the changes made in the last week to if_llc.h, netatalk should work
> > on all 32-bit architectures, at least.  The bits in the tree are only
> > kernel support; you'll still need to get the userland daemons.  Go to
> > ftp.fugue.com and follow your nose to the netatalk 1.4 beta that was
> > modified for NetBSD, and ignore the kernel pieces... it should Just Work
> > once you have it compiled and installed.
> 
> Sorry it took so long to comment.
> 
> Now that struct llc is working right, netatalk should be working.
> 
> There's a new version of the netatalk user code, on toccata
> (ftp://toccata.fugue.com/pub/netbsd-ataalk/beta2.970511/).
> This new beta includes a bug fix from Christos, and a compromise to get
> netatalk to compile w/o /usr/include/netatalk/endian.h (as we already
> always include endian support).
> 
> I recomend that everyone using the netatalk souce upgrade to beta2. The
> two bug fixes in atalkd are important. There is also a patch kit which
> just contais the changed files.
> 
> Take care,
> 
> Bill
> 
> 


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