Re: [lcd4linux] How to get started with lcd4linux

[Robert D. <ro...@he...>]

Thanks for the response Michael.  As it turns out I think the pharm  
spam is gone now so you must have found it. At one point there was  
nothing at all in the trac pages except links I was not interested in  
following, offering free [insert drug here].  Thanks for cleaning  
that up.

I got the .10 tarball and did a quick ./configure and a quick make,  
bu the make terminated quickly with this:

[root@localhost lcd4linux-0.10.0]# make
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.    -D_GNU_SOURCE -Wall -W -g -O2 -c  
drv_generic_i2c.c
In file included from drv_generic_i2c.c:76:
lcd4linux_i2c.h:81: error: array type has incomplete element type
make: *** [drv_generic_i2c.o] Error 1


Looks like I have some work to do ;)  As it happens I just got the  
unit with the LCD (20x4 Crystalfontz CFA-635) and I through Fedora on  
it very quickly with little thought to my eventual production  
environment.  I just wanted to see what cool things I could do with  
it.  Alas...

I will rebuild the unit in my typical gui-less build and try it again.

I am still interested in working with someone on putting together a  
Fedora RPM for lcd4linux, so if anyone wants to collaborate on that  
please let me know. More shortly.



On Sep 28, 2006, at 12:00 AM, Michael Reinelt wrote:

> Hi Robert,
>
>> I did find the tarball on sourceforge but I still am not seeing any
>> documentaion.
> Please don't use the SF pages, instead go to http:// 
> lcd4linux.bulix.org.
> I think there's pretty much docs available there in the wiki....
>
>> Is there a Fedora binary in the works, if not, I would love to help
>> someone make one (although I have not RPM'd tarballs before).
> I'm afraid there is none, at least none that I know of.
>
>> Lastly, I am trying to maintain a very minimal FC4 build, thus if we
>> could determine which packages are required for install and doc that
>> here that would be quite good too.
> Well, this depends on what display you want to use. But 'configure'
> should find out most of it. There are only a few dependencies...
>
>>> There seems to be (in addition to ample pharm spam)
> what spam are you talking about? I wanna know and remove it :-)
>
>
> bye, Michael
>
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