Re: [OpenOCD-user] Ubuntu and libusb

[Ron G. <ro...@fl...>]

On Dec 29, 2015, at 10:54 AM, Craig Younkins <cyo...@gm...> wrote:

> Ron,
> 
> Be sure to read the "Building OpenOCD" section of https://github.com/arduino/OpenOCD/blob/master/README
> 
> I think the error you see is actually because you lack libtool or pkg-config

Ha, that did it!  Thanks!

> Someone on sparkfun forum said: "I had also been spending some hours to get this running, on my system (Debian 7.4) it was required to install the make, libtool and pkg-config package like it is recommended in the README. After that the configure has found the usblib.”

I had just assumed that these were already installed.  The errors I was seeing didn’t seem like the sort of thing one would see if a core package like libtool were missing.  Obviously I was wrong, but equally obviously I am not the first person to make this mistake.  Is there a reason that you don’t just tweak the configure script to check for libtool and pkg-config?  You might save a lot of people a lot of grief.

rg