-I and Windows Share

[Jeffrey Walton]

> It'd seem to me you'd have an easier time of it if you mounted it in
> the kernel first (using mount -t cifs or mount -t smbfs) and then use -I
> and -L with the Linux mount point.
The [possible] problem I see with this is that on different
machines/distributions, the mount point is a moving target. For
exmple, take a look at the mount point when you insert a USB stick on
Ubuntu (its a GUID).

I don't really care how its mounted (auto mount by OS, browse to with
Network Browser (udevd?), etc) - I want to be able to get to it
unambiguously. And /smb://fileserver/fileshar/dir/ is unambiguous.

> Make the kernel do the work, not gcc.
Agreed. I'm trying to get someone to do the work for me ;)

Jeff

On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Aubin LaBrosse <zoticus@gmail.com> wrote:
> It'd seem to me you'd have an easier time of it if you mounted it in the kernel first (using mount -t cifs or mount -t smbfs) and then use -I and -L with the Linux mount point.
>
> Make the kernel do the work, not gcc.
>
> -a
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Oct 17, 2010, at 9:59 AM, Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> A quick quest on linking to a library on a windows share.
>>
>> GCC silently consumes non-existent paths. So when I do the following,
>> I assume its a failure since I have link problems:
>> gcc ... -L/smb://fileserver/fileshar/dir/ -llibcoolstuff
>>
>> How does one specify a windows share?
>>
>> Jeff
>