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shelbydz

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Registered: 2014-03-16

Posts: 58

[solved] Couldn't Check Endianness -- mk_check_endian

I'm trudging through a mess of compile errors on old code for Likewise Open. Source code is:
https://github.com/pmorton/likewise-open

While running configure, i got a bunch of errors stating Could not check endienness (or something there abouts). I traced that down to 5 ish config files. All with lines like:

        mk_check_endian
        case "$ENDIANNESS" in
            big) mk_define LW_BIG_ENDIAN;;
            little) mk_define LW_LITTLE_ENDIAN;;
        esac

I'm not sure why, but mk_check_endian doesnt return results or it doesnt return results that the config expects. I changed the configs to

mk_define ENDIANESS "LW_LITTLE_ENDIAN"

that got me through the config process, but it now fails on make. I get:

/lwbase/src/../include/lw/swab.h:67:2: error: #error One of LW_BIG_ENDIAN or LW_LITTLE_ENDIAN must be defined to use this header
 #error One of LW_BIG_ENDIAN or LW_LITTLE_ENDIAN must be defined to use this header

so mk_check_endian is doing more than setting a local variable. Im not sure what SHOULD be in there, assuming my machine is Little. Anyone help out? I think this is the last hurdle to compiling this POS.

thx

Last edited by shelbydz (2014-07-31 18:10:08)

shelbydz

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Registered: 2014-03-16

Posts: 58

Re: [solved] Couldn't Check Endianness -- mk_check_endian

Did some additional digging and found this:
https://bkoropoff.github.io/makekit/man … ndian.html
It appears that it checks, then sets ENDIANNESS to "little" or "big". I commented out all of the mk_check_endian but left in the case statements. Then ran

export ENDIANESS=little
make clean
configure
make

that seems to have gotten me around this particular problem. Code still wont build though.