NTFS-3G support

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Perhaps one of the most ambitious file system implementations on top of FUSE is 
NTFS-3G 
<http://www.ntfs-3g.org/>. However, it currently has its ./configure script 
hardcoded to disallow non-
Linux building. This is likely due to their understandable unwillingness to 
support a setup they cannot 
maintain themselves:
<http://www.ntfs-3g.org/support.html#endian64>
"The code is 64-bit clean, endian safe and it's reported to work on these 
systems. ///However 
unfortunately we are unable to validate the functionality and keep ensuring 
correctness and reliability 
due to lack of dedicated such hardwares for development///."
<http://forum.ntfs-3g.org/viewtopic.php?p=449#449>
"Mac may work but ///we can't officially support hardwares we don't 
have permanent physical access because we think that would be highly 
irresponsible regards to users data integration///."

Now, naturally the developers of MacFUSE *do* presumably have "permanent 
physical access" to Mac 
hardware (and, certainly, others interested in this do). Would it therefore be 
possible to work on a patch 
to their tarball?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by chucker...@gmail.com on 11 Jan 2007 at 10:22

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Never mind. #6 beat me to it by mere minutes.

Original comment by chucker...@gmail.com on 11 Jan 2007 at 10:22

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Removing the restriction is easy; we're not going to patch their tarball.

Original comment by motown...@gmail.com on 12 Jan 2007 at 2:51

• Changed state: WontFix

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There's no need to patch the tarball.  If you want to override that check, you 
can look for the line that starts with:

case "$target_os"

in the configure script. It switches on "linux*". You can, for experimental 
purposes, change "linux*" to just "*".

Original comment by si...@gmail.com on 12 Jan 2007 at 2:54