[users] dkms-ntfs will not build on CentOS 5.1

[Dag Wieers]

On Mon, 3 Dec 2007, Bart Schaefer wrote:

> After updating CentOS 5 to the recent 5.1 release, dkms-ntfs failed to rebuild.
>
> I can attach the whole log file if it's helpful.
>
> DKMS make.log for ntfs-2.1.27-2.nodist.rf for kernel 2.6.18-53.1.4.el5 (i686)
> Mon Dec  3 22:34:16 PST 2007
> make: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-53.1.4.el5-i686'
>   LD      /var/lib/dkms/ntfs/2.1.27-2.nodist.rf/build/built-in.o
>   CC [M]  /var/lib/dkms/ntfs/2.1.27-2.nodist.rf/build/aops.o
> In file included from /var/lib/dkms/ntfs/2.1.27-2.nodist.rf/build/inode.h:35,
>                  from /var/lib/dkms/ntfs/2.1.27-2.nodist.rf/build/aops.h:32,
>                  from /var/lib/dkms/ntfs/2.1.27-2.nodist.rf/build/aops.c:33:
> /var/lib/dkms/ntfs/2.1.27-2.nodist.rf/build/layout.h:145: error: expected '=', '
> ,', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before '__ntfs_is_magic'
> /var/lib/dkms/ntfs/2.1.27-2.nodist.rf/build/layout.h:151: error: expected '=', '
> ,', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before '__ntfs_is_magicp'

I think dkms-ntfs never worked for RHEL5. (or maybe an older version did)

But we still have fuse-ntfs-3g :)

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