Thread: cross-platform encryption?
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fixerdave is offline fixerdave
2009-02-07 , 02:40
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#6
Originally Posted by factoriel View Post
OK, this explains the problem: "Ubuntu v8.10 (PPC version)"

To correctly compile the Notecase for PPC architecture (it uses "Big Endian" memory data format), you need to enable this in the Makefile:

BYTE_ORDER=-DSHA1_BIG_ENDIAN -DORDER_ABCD

Just add this line somewhere at the top of the makefile and compile.
Okay, that worked... thanks!

Soooo, this being my very first Linux compile from source, I'm wondering if/how I should report this. It appears I'm using a PPC port of Ubuntu that has an incorrect make file for Notecase - thus the distro's binary is wrong. Is this a developer bug or rather a bug for the people that maintain the PPC distro? Who do I inform of the issue and solution?

Oh, and thanks for this... it was perfect timing as I was just at the point of looking to figure out how to compile from source. Actually accomplishing something useful during the process was a real bonus. Next up is figuring out this bug-reporting thing.

David...