Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 01:41:18 -0300 From: Patrick Tracanelli <eksffa@freebsdbrasil.com.br> To: Fredrik Lindberg <fli+freebsd-hackers@shapeshifter.se> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: UPEK/TouchChip Biometric Device problem Message-ID: <467CA46E.6070705@freebsdbrasil.com.br> In-Reply-To: <467C3D4F.5030106@shapeshifter.se> References: <467C343C.60707@freebsdbrasil.com.br> <467C3D4F.5030106@shapeshifter.se>
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> First, you cross-posted to way too many lists, ports@ would probably > have been the most appropriate as this has nothing to do with FreeBSD > itself. Believed it to be related to recent system changes. > >> >> All threads purged from ugen1.1 >> All threads purged from ugen1.2 >> All threads purged from ugen1.3 > > Harmless, as far as I know. > >> >> What is this about "threads purged"? Also, the port want libintl.so.6 >> while 6.2-STABLE has libintl.so.8. I have tried 1) linking .8 to .6 >> and also copied .6 from another system (also, 6.2-STABLE) to the >> current one. Didnt work both way. Same behavior, exactly. > > This is because of a gettext library bump, I just found out about it > (although it happened in march), and I have know good solution to it. > Installing an old version of gettext should of course work, but that's > ugly. So, this has nothing to do with the fact that the device can not be initiated? > >> >> On 7.0-CURRENT things are worse. libpthread is not found, and the same >> command core dumps. Anyway, 6.2-STABLE is more important to me right >> now, since I need this device to work on FreeBSD for an ongoing >> project, but if a solution to 7.0 happens first my work can move to >> that version. >> > > This is life with binary only, closed source applications. Things might > have been slightly better if this was statically linked but > unfortunately that's not the case. > misc/compat6x should hopefully cover the threading though. Tried with, compat6x, no difference. Also tried with libpthread as denoted on current's /usr/src/UPDATING, also, same behavior. > > When I get some spare time, I'll try to ping my contact at UPEK, > but last time I heard from them they were developing a new version > but nothing have been released yet, so things aren't looking good. > If nothing works out, I'm afraid this port have seen its last days. > > Fredrik
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