hal 0.5.14 released

[Robby Workman]

On Tue, 01 Dec 2009 01:34:39 -0500
Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 00:03 -0600, Robby Workman wrote:
> > On Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:49:57 -0600
> > Robby Workman <rw at rlworkman.net> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:38:07 +0100
> > > Martin Pitt <martin.pitt at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Requirements for HAL 0.5.14 did not change since the last
> > > > release.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Hrm... maybe I'm missing something obvious here, but after
> > > configure, I get this:
> > > 
> > >   use libusb:                       no
> > > 
> > > 
> > > The usb-specific lines in configure output are:
> > > 
> > >   checking for /usr/share/usb.ids... yes
> > >   configure: WARNING: autodetected usb.ids in /usr/share
> > >   checking usb.h usability... yes
> > >   checking usb.h presence... yes
> > >   checking for usb.h... yes
> > >   checking for usb_find_devices in -lusb... yes
> > >   checking for libusb20_dev_get_info in -lusb... no
> > > 
> > > It appears that *maybe* this libusb20_dev_get_info is specific to
> > > freebsd, but config.log says my HALD_BACKEND=linux (as it should).
> > > So... what am I missing here?  This is with libusb-1.0.6 and 
> > > libusb-compat-0.1.3 installed.
> > 
> > 
> > CC'ing Joe Marcus Clarke, as I *think* this is related to the
> > new USB20 stuff for freebsd.  I just build 0.5.12 and 0.5.13
> > on the same system, and libusb was enabled successfully without
> > the check for libusb20_dev_get_info at all.
> 
> Yes, libusb20 is only for FreeBSD.  I think what you're seeing is
> cosmetic, and USB support is being properly enabled (as the FreeBSD
> code overrides USE_LIBUSB after the Linux code consumes it).  This
> shouldn't be hard to fix, though.  I have a fix, but I won't be able
> to test it until this weekend.


I "fixed" it by hacking configure here, as I'm not inclined
(or likely even capable) ;-) of wading through too much
autotools stuff, but if you've got something to test, I'll
be happy to test it here and let you know - I keep a local
git tree anyway.

-RW
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