On 3/26/07, Yziquel Guillaume <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Daniel Johnson a écrit : > > > On Mar 25, 2007, at 4:41 PM, Yziquel Guillaume wrote: > > > >> Hello list, > >> > >> I'm looking for a way to install lsusb. I do not find usbutils in the > >> current Fink distribution. So I've been trying to install it from > >> source, and it keeps asking for an up to date version of libusb. > >> > >> fink list usb tells me that libusb's version is 0.1.12. However, the > >> following command yields the following output. So I get the feeling I'm > >> closer to 0.1.4.4.4 than to 0.1.12. > > > > The version number in the dylib name doesn't necessarily have anything > > to do with the package's version. The version of libusb in fink is > > indeed 0.1.12 which according to the libusb website is the latest > > version. > > OK. I was not aware at all that the two versions may not coincide. > > > Perhaps you haven't told usbutils how to find libusb? Did you follow > > http://www.finkproject.org/faq/usage-general.php?phpLang=en#compile-myself > > and are both libusb and libusb-shlibs installed? > > Humm. No. I did not. libusb ant libusb-shlibs were installed though. > > > Daniel > > Two little suggestions: > > 1) I think it would be a good idea to ask, when installing/updating > fink, if these flags should be set up to allow compilation against the > fink hierarchy. I think it would be useful to have such a configuration > by default, since users need relatively often (hopefully not too often) > to include things outside of fink. >
We try _not_ to interfere with a users' settings except to install the Fink environment. There are circumstances when a user does _not_ want to include Fink libraries, e.g. when updating a Macports package. > 2) What about creating a package for usbutils? > The developers tend to add packages that they use (since they have a lot to keep up with), and we welcome submissions from our users. On the other hand, be warned that some Linux packages don't work at all on OS X, due to differences in how devices are handled. > Thank you very much. My ./configure script now works very well. > > Moving on to make. I thank you very much. > > Guillaume Yziquel. > -- Alexander K. Hansen (akh) Fink User Liason and Documenter ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
