VFS Linking errors

[David Collier-Brown]

Paul Weaver wrote:
> After successful tests on a linux machine, we're trying to deploy a VFS module onto a solaris x64 machine.
> 
> Initial problem was we couldn't compile. Downloaded the source for 3.0.28, ran through configure and make. The VFS object compiled fine, but then wouldn't connect
> 
> /usr/sfw/sbin/smbd --version
> Version 3.0.28
> 
> [2008/09/18 15:18:26, 0] smbd/vfs.c:(66)
>   Failed to register vfs module.
>   The module was compiled against SMB_VFS_INTERFACE_VERSION 134502736,
>   current SMB_VFS_INTERFACE_VERSION is 21.
>   Please recompile against the current Samba Version!


I think you had an uninitialized version number variable, as 134502736 sounds bizzare!


> So we removed the prepackaged samba completely and installed 3.0.28 (the version we'd tested on on x86 linux)
> 
> /usr/local/samba/sbin/smbd --version
> Version 3.0.28
> 
> and recompiled the vfs module
> 
> We could then connect to the server, but then hit a snag
> ld.so.1: smbd: fatal: relocation error: file /usr/local/samba/lib/vfs/media_harmony.so: symbol __unsafe_string_function_usage_here__: referenced symbol not found

And this should be a warning about inadvertently using an unsafe function: if
you fail to link/run with it being produced, then I think you're calling something
that can be evil, like strncpy(1).
 
Sorry, I haven't built a VFS lately, so this is slightly old advice (;-))

--dave 
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