Re: bad mke2fs behavior on sparc

[Paul Vojta <vojta@math.berkeley.edu>]

> Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 15:18:11 +0100 (CET)
> To: submit@bugs.debian.org (debian bug tracking system),
>         debian-sparc@lists.debian.org (debian sparc group)
> From: Eric Delaunay <delaunay@lix.polytechnique.fr>
> Subject: bad mke2fs behavior on sparc
> 
> Latest mke2fs zeroes the first sector of the partition is is formating.
> It is really bad on sparc when the partition starts at sector 0 because it
> kills the partition table :((
> I took a quick look into e2fsprogs sources: it seems to be aware of this case
> because I saw the next lines in the code:
> 
> #ifndef sparc
> #define ZAP_BOOTBLOCK
> #endif
> 
> Since the compiled program does not work like expected, it could be a
> compilation problem.  Could be because sparc macro is not define anymore ?

Yes, that is correct.  Use #ifndef __sparc__ instead.

--Paul Vojta, vojta@math.berkeley.edu