Proper procedure to update hal on -current

Jeremy Messenger mezz7 at cox.net
Fri Apr 17 22:28:01 UTC 2009


On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 11:28:45 -0500, Mel Flynn  
<mel.flynn+fbsd.current at mailing.thruhere.net> wrote:

> On Friday 17 April 2009 10:35:39 Mel Flynn wrote:
>> Hi Johannes,
>>
>> On Friday 17 April 2009 09:31:46 Johannes Dieterich wrote:
>> > > Do I need to temporarily uninstall devel/libusb (it doesn't build  
>> now
>> > > anyway,
>> > > but maybe upgrading to today's current will fix that) then reinstall
>> > > it?
>> >
>> > My procedure was to deinstall devel/libusb, then I also encountered  
>> the
>> > same kind of mising dependencies as you do but for me a pkgdb -F
>> > afterwards would fix them. Then hal would also build for me. :-)
>>
>> Ah, this relies on ldconfig -r finding /usr/lib/libusb and thus not
>> installing devel/libusb. Gotcha.
>
> Actually, it don't :( and libusb marked as IGNORE, portmaster complaints  
> and
> downhill there. Hence the patch below. Whether this patch disables usb
> features, I don't know. Will have to dig into cmake and find out where it
> stores "what is enabled/disabled".

I personal would like to see USE_LIBUSB (or without LIB) add in  
bsd.port.mk.

Cheers,
Mezz


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