Hi Paul, All,
First of all apologies for not getting back to you earlier
re. last query by Paul. OWFS on Archlinux is currently a background
task. OWFS on Raspbian is my foreground task (it works perfectly on
Raspbian).
I've got OWFS going on Archlinux.
The steps I followed were as follows:
- Removed the OWFS installed from the AUR Archlinux repository
- Downloaded owfs-2.9p7 from the sourceforge repo at
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/owfs/owfs-2.9p7.tar.gz
(I know there is a later owfs release but I wanted to use the
release version in Archlinux). Unzipped and untarred that.
- Changed to the directory *owfs-2.9p7* (where the build tools are )
- Ran: *./bootstrap* (I initially thought this applied only to
development code)
- Ran: *./configure --prefix=/usr --with-python="/usr/bin/python2"
--with-pythonconfig="/usr/bin/python2-config"*
(NOTE: The default Archlinux release of python is 3.xx. The
above --with-python statements are to direct the build to use python 2)
- Ran: *make*
- Ran: *make check*
- Ran: *sudo make install*
The above steps ran without errors (there were some warnings which I
didn't think were show stoppers)
I then ran: *sudo owfs -u --allow_other -m /mnt/1-wire*
(I'm using a DS9490R bus master which has a USB interface)
The above mounted the 1-wire information on /mnt/1-wire. I also read
the temperature from the 2 sensors attached to the DS9490R which
changed whenever I held the sensors between my fingers. So it's going.
One issue however: When I ran *sudo owfs -u --allow_other -m
/mnt/1-wire *it stayed in the foreground. So I had to open another
terminal to read the contents of /mnt/1-wire. Backgrounding the
process did not work.
Another matter. I'm not sure whether it was me including the
*./bootstrap* step that made the build work. Just before I started
the build I noticed that I did not have libtool which I then
attempted to install but failed. I then updated the installation
(*sudo pacman -Syu* in Arch) and it installed libtool by itself to
replace another package (did not note down the former package's
name). Arch seems to be a very dynamic distribution.
So it is mostly working now - just needs owfs to go into the
background when running.
Last point. I needed more packages than indicated by Archlinux's
dependency requirements for owfs. One of them is libusb-compat which
also wasn't indicated anywhere during the previous build attempts as far
as I could see.
Regards
Joe P.
On 16/12/14 23:58, Paul Alfille wrote:
Hi. I'm sorry there build isn't working. Did you do the "./bootstrap,
./configure, make" sequence?
One of the messages:
configure.ac:52 <http://configure.ac:52/>: warning: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE:
two- and three-arguments
forms are deprecated. For more info, see:
configure.ac:52 <http://configure.ac:52/>:
Is benign. (For that matter, what type of idiots change the format of
functions between versions, especially in a package meant to paper
over version differences!)
The build works on fedora and ubuntu and opensuse. Did the "automake
--add-missing" your error output mentions do anything?
Paul
On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 4:56 PM, joep <j...@naturalmethods.org
<mailto:j...@naturalmethods.org>> wrote:
Hi All,
I'm trying to build OWFS on a recent version of Archlinux
(3.12.34-1-ARCH #1 PREEMPT) running on a RaspberryPi but am having
various difficulties (I've been running owfs on Raspbian for close
to 2
years now without any problems). There is an OWFS package in Arch but
it's failing to run (using --debug and fake devices does not
help). I've
already identified that it needs additional libraries installed (eg
libusb-compat and a host of build environment packages). I also got
around (I think) around the python version issues (version 3 vs
version
4) by using the configure script call specified in Arch's PKGBUILD
package file.
The OWFS configure script also seems to require version 1.13
(am__api_version='1.13') of some of the build tools. Arch has other
versions of these tools (a lot are at version 1.14). I've changed the
configure script to 1.14 but still am having issues. The last build
attempt gave ...
[pi_1@RasPi_1 owfs-2.9p7]$ sudo make install
[sudo] password for pi_1:
cd . && /bin/sh
/home/pi_1/MyFiles/owfs/owfs-2.9p7/src/scripts/install/missing
automake-1.14 --foreign
configure.ac:52 <http://configure.ac:52>: warning:
AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE: two- and three-arguments
forms are deprecated. For more info, see:
configure.ac:52 <http://configure.ac:52>:
http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/automake.html#Modernize-AM_005fINIT_005fAUTOMAKE-invocation
configure.ac:76 <http://configure.ac:76>: error: required file
'src/scripts/install/compile' not
found
configure.ac:76 <http://configure.ac:76>: 'automake
--add-missing' can install 'compile'
Makefile:491: recipe for target 'Makefile.in' failed
make: *** [Makefile.in] Error 1
I have found a OWFS build guide on Arch at
http://sourceforge.net/p/owfs/mailman/message/27811887/ but that's
from
2011. Any more recent guides or pointers?
--
Regards
Joe P.
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