Re: [OpenOCD-user] Ubuntu and libusb

[Craig Y. <cyo...@gm...>]

Ron,

> Is there a reason that you don’t just tweak the configure script to check
for libtool and pkg-config?

Alas, I am a mere user with my own openocd problems. I have near zero
experience with automake/autoconf. I think your suggestion would be a good
idea, if it's possible.

Craig Younkins

On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 2:03 PM, Ron Garret <ro...@fl...> wrote:

> 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
>
>