problem updating udev

[Stefan Wold]

On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 09:23 -0700, Richard B. Pyne wrote:

> > Could you try lin libusb-compat and then give udev a go again please?
> Now it is complaining that usbutils is needed even though it is an 
> optional dependency:
> 
> -------------------------------------
> checking for LIBUSB... yes
> checking for USBUTILS... configure: error: Package requirements 
> (usbutils >= 0.82) were not met:
> 
> No package 'usbutils' found
> -------------------------------------
> 
> After selecting to use the optional dependency usbutils, udev builds 
> without further problem, so, it looks like libusb-compat needs to be 
> added as a dependency, usbutils needs to be made a required dependency, 
> and the udev developers taken out and flogged for making things required 
> that are not otherwise needed in many instances.
> 

Ok great, I will look into it and fix the dependencies properly. The USB
libs and tools can be optional but I guess udev default to these tools
unless --disable-extras is passed to it.

-- 
Sincerely
Stefan Wold
Lunar Linux developer - PGP public key 6E810F05

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