It's arbitrary to me what version I start from, I had just grabbed the latest 2.7.2 tar.
How do I get the version that you suggest I start from? git clone? Or do I just change the .tar file I have with what you linked (changes the 52-* file to 62-*) Sincerely, Rob Groner > -----Original Message----- > From: Charles Lepple [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, March 09, 2015 8:48 PM > To: Rob Groner > Cc: nut-upsuser List > Subject: Re: [Nut-upsuser] Install problems (group permissions) with nut > 2.7.2 > > On Mar 9, 2015, at 12:00 PM, Rob Groner <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 1) Autoreconf *must* be run, and not ./configure? I had thought that > putting in my *.c and *.h files and making the makefile changes and then > executing ./configure for the first time would be enough. > > Each tool serves a different purpose. autoreconf (and NUT's autogen.sh, by > inclusion) generates the ./configure script. I think it typically runs it as > well, > but often you would re-run it with "--prefix=" or other arguments (such as "-- > with-drivers=usbhid-ups" to cut down on compilation time). > > It occurred to me that your driver will be introducing new USB VID:PID > entries, so this is something else that autogen.sh does: it rebuilds the udev > files that change permissions when the UPS gets plugged in. > > I mentioned pulling in a copy of autogen.sh earlier, and I'm not sure what > other developer-only scripts are left out of the tarball. We really only > heavily > test two cases: building from Git, and building from a clean tarball. Small > patches to the tarball are easy; structural changes like adding files are > harder > to guarantee that they will work. > > That, plus the fact that 2.7.2 still has the old prefix number on the udev > files, > means you might be better off starting from the latest Git version of NUT, or > at least including the following patch: > > https://github.com/networkupstools/nut/commit/040c800efad46ead967007 > 7c9764360802d7aaf5 > > Reference: > > https://github.com/networkupstools/nut/issues/140 > > -- > Charles Lepple > clepple@gmail > > _______________________________________________ Nut-upsuser mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser
