xffm, samba, cygwin

[Maarten Boekhold]

edscott wrote:

If you can come up with some configure/autotools magic to conditionally 
exclude samba from the build, I'd be much obliged.

> Other programs xffm uses are
> mount,umount (for fstab branch), cp, mv, tar, mkisofs. The only
> indispensable ones are cp/mv.

These are all available as far as I know, except that mount/umount works 
differently under cygwin. There's no fstab. So we might have to tinker a 
bit if we want to get that working. Perhaps the best option is to write 
a cygwin-specific plugin for managing cygwin mounts.

Edscott, I'm a bit confused about how the plugins that are in the 
xffm/libs directory are handled. As far as I can tell these are proper 
plugins, i.e. they get installed in a module directory, and should be 
loaded using g_module_open etc. Except I can't figure out where this is 
happening. Can you please elaborate?

Also, somebody mentioned on IRC that xffm installs itself numerous times 
with a bunch of hardlinks. I assume that xffm acts as a wrapper around a 
lot of functionality. Can you please elaborate why it is using hardlinks 
instead of symlinks? Under cygwin there are no true hardlinks, instead 
it just creates a copy of the file, which would be a waste of space. 
symlinks however should work.

Apart from the previous mentioned libs/modules, I analyzed all other 
plugins, and it appears no changes are necessary (apart from the cygwin 
CFLAGS/LDFLAGS/LIBADD stuff) to get these working correctly. Good news.

Maarten