Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 15:36:56 +0100 From: Chris Rees <crees@freebsd.org> To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: freebsd-usb@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 8.2 and DisplayLink devices? Message-ID: <CADLo8396B9zwnbedKWFjcXErEdyuMkDdJVuz%2BKSX-vPGkiVpow@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <29831219-5799-4ABE-9F02-5732D6881863@gsoft.com.au> References: <20110710194410.4ff1f096.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> <201107101956.03740.hselasky@c2i.net> <20110710200629.00aab8b3.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> <20110710181316.GA1147@tiny> <20110711015905.ff232e6b.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> <5A792F9E-4860-4892-ACC4-9250F025EDB0@gsoft.com.au> <CADLo839FE=doVyR5JRs0NPiD6ZS5zWVOVbj7uiCDpZNp3yFf8w@mail.gmail.com> <29831219-5799-4ABE-9F02-5732D6881863@gsoft.com.au>
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On 11 Jul 2011 14:26, "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> wrote:
>
>
> On 11/07/2011, at 17:35, Chris Rees wrote:
> >> It would be nice if FreeBSD shipped with those files in (say)
/usr/libdata/pkgconfig and the pkg-config port was tweaked to search there
as well but it hasn't happened yet..
> >
> > Really? We don't have pkgconfig in the base system, so I'd submit that
> > it'd be a little strange.
> >
> > I would suggest a port (perhaps like libusb-pkgconfig) that
> > installs/creates those files in ${PREFIX}/libdata/pkgconfig for you,
> > or any other creative fix that you can think of!
> >
> > Not sure if we want to go down that road though...
>
> That is the other approach but it's a bit of a pain to make the libusb
port do something very different for 8.x.
>
The last thing we should have is a port that does different things depending
on OS version like that, I was thinking of a virtual port, as it were.
Chris
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