Re: libusb-1.0.16-rc10 without udev ?

[Nathan H. <hj...@me...>]

Huh, thats interesting. Can you send me the config.log after running configure with --diable-udev? It will have more information on why it can't use netlink.h.

-Nathan

On May 24, 2013, at 1:26 PM, mav <spl...@gm...> wrote:

> -----------
> Output for "./configure --host="nios2-linux-uclibc" --disable-shared
> --with-pic --disable-udev":
> 
> <initial lines stripped>
> ...
> checking operating system... Linux
> checking for clock_gettime in -lrt... yes
> ./configure: line 11981: -pthread: command not found
> checking linux/netlink.h usability... no
> checking linux/netlink.h presence... yes
> configure: WARNING: linux/netlink.h: present but cannot be compiled
> configure: WARNING: linux/netlink.h:     check for missing prerequisite headers?
> configure: WARNING: linux/netlink.h: see the Autoconf documentation
> configure: WARNING: linux/netlink.h:     section "Present But Cannot
> Be Compiled"
> configure: WARNING: linux/netlink.h: proceeding with the compiler's result
> configure: WARNING:     ## ------------------------------------------------- ##
> configure: WARNING:     ## Report this to lib...@li... ##
> configure: WARNING:     ## ------------------------------------------------- ##
> checking for linux/netlink.h... no
> configure: error: "Linux netlink headers not found"
> 
> -----------
> Output for "./configure --host="nios2-linux-uclibc" --disable-shared
> --with-pic --with-udev=no":
> 
> <initial lines stripped>
> ...
> checking operating system... Linux
> checking for clock_gettime in -lrt... yes
> ./configure: line 11981: -pthread: command not found
> checking libudev.h usability... no
> checking libudev.h presence... no
> checking for libudev.h... no
> configure: error: "udev support requested but libudev not installed"
> 
> On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 3:06 PM, Nathan Hjelm <hj...@me...> wrote:
>> 
>> On May 24, 2013, at 1:00 PM, mav <spl...@gm...> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I need to use "libftdi1" that requires libusb-1.0.16-rc10. The
>>> compilation of libusb-1.0.16-rc10 fails as described below.
>>> 
>>> "./configure --with-udev=no" output:
>>> configure: error: "udev support requested but libudev not installed"
>>> 
>>> It seems libusb configure script does not handle "--with-udev" when
>>> set to ''no".
>>> 
>>> "./configure --disable-udev" fails on netlink compilation.
>> 
>> --with-udev doesn't work and the correct option is --disable-udev.
>> 
>>> I am using uClinux with 2.6.28 kernel and have described my setup at:
>>> http://developer.intra2net.com/mailarchive/html/libftdi/2013/msg00228.html
>>> 
>>> My question is whether libusb-1.0.16-rc10 can be used without udev?
>> 
>> netlink support should work but hasn't been tested with uClinux. What error are you seeing?
>> 
>> -Nathan
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> hi,
> 
> 
> - mav