[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#1009211: Bug#1009211: Bug#1009211: Kodi FTBFS against libsmbclient.h due to syntax error in _Static_assert

[Michael Tokarev]

09.04.2022 02:46, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> And no, samba team does not "request" all architectures to
> declare -DFILE_OFFSET_BITS.  It is the setting with which
> samba is built (in order to support files >2Gb in size), -
> including libsmbclient too. So all functions in there which
> deal with file sizes and offsets - the one using off_t
> datatype - even on 32bit platforms like i386, use 64-bit
> value there. This is called LFS (Large File Support). When
> you compile your program without this #define on a 32bit
> system, you'll be getting off_t size = 4 bytes (32bits),
> but actual functions in actual libsmbclient are using
> prototypes with 64-bit off_t. So you'll be having
> weird runtime errors with everything seemingly correct.

I forgot to mention. The value for -DFILE_OFFSET_BITS &Co
to use for a given system is obtained from the following
command:

  getconf LFS_CFLAGS

or as variable assignment:

  CFLAGS=$(getconf LFS_CFLAGS)

/mjt