Re: [lcd4linux] Compiling on Mac OS X Snow Leopard

[Alexander v. d. B. <atv...@ho...>]

All, Long shot perhaps, but wouldn't it be great to have lcd4linux available through MacPorts one day?
Cheers, Alexander> Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 09:12:54 +0100
> From: mi...@re...
> To: mat...@gm...
> CC: atv...@ho...; lcd...@li...
> Subject: Re: [lcd4linux] Compiling on Mac OS X Snow Leopard
> 
> Hello Mattia,
> 
> > I managed to turn lcd4linux into lcd4mac ;) on an old mac powerbook G4
> > with powerPC processor and OS X 10.5.8 (the latest supported OS X
> > release for this processor architecture).
> 
> Cool!
> 
> > I compiled the X11 driver only but I included all the plugins
> > excluding the following:
> >
> > huawei: the flag IUCLC is used in one of the functions and it is
> > absent in the OS X termios flags
> 
> I have no idea about this plugin (I don't use it)
> 
> > i2c_sensors: PATH_MAX is defined in sys/syslimits.h; by including this
> > header everything is fine
> could this be fine on linux, too? in this case we could fix it globally. Could you provide a patch?
> 
> > proc_stat: OS_X doesn't have a proc filesystem so this plugin does not apply
> Is there a (simnple) way to exclude this plugin on mac somehow in the autoconf toolchain?
> 
> 
> > The libtool works a bit differently so you will have to link by hand.
> > Also depending on your installation the libiconv may differ. You may
> > want to specify the library full path when linking.
> 
> Well, that does not sound too good to me... I always thought that's why we use all this autoconf stuff?
> 
> 
> > I also spotted an error in timer.h This header must include the system
> > header time.h or the struct timespec is undefined.
> > Presently time.h is included in timer.c.
> 
> Again, if this change is fine for linux, too, I want to apply it globally.
> 
> 
> merry christmas to everyone!
> 
> 
> regards, michael
> 
> 
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