[Lcdproc] lis pthreads patch [was lis driver fails to compile]

[Daryl F]

On Mon, 05 Nov 2007 23:26:55 +0100
Markus Dolze <bsdfan@nurfuerspam.de> wrote:

> Markus Dolze wrote:
> > Daryl F wrote:
> >   
> >> Peter,
> >>
> >> Here's the patch for the lis driver. It now uses pthread_create()
> >> and is hopefully portable to non-Linux kernels. 
> >>
> >> In adding another library test for autoconf I found the logic for
> >> checking for libftdi and libusb wasn't quite right either. Now it
> >> checks for all three and ensures that the version of libftdi with
> >> ftdi_setdtr() is available. This also fixes the minor annoyance of
> >> configure saying it will build the lis driver twice.
> >>
> >> Thanks to Rene Wagner for your help with this.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Daryl
> >>     
> > Hello,
> >
> > I updated the patch to match current CVS. It compiles fine on
> > FreeBSD.
> Hi again,
> 
> unfortunately I was a little bit too fast. The patch applies cleanly,
> but the changes to acinclude.m4 don't detect libusb and libftdi
> properly and therefore the lis driver is not built at all. I think
> converting it to the pkg-config thing will probably work.
> 
> Regards
> Markus Dolze

Hi,
I investigated this a bit more. Turns out the CVS nightly tarball I got
on November 1 was too early to get the pkg-config changes that were
committed on November 5.

I'll have to modify the acinclude.m4 from Nov. 5. since the lis driver
now has an additional requirement for libpthread.

Regards,
Daryl