From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 17:35:02 +0000 Subject: Re: Trying to compile udev + libsysfs Message-Id: <20060105173502.GA2408@kroah.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 03:05:51PM +0100, Wolfgang Klein wrote: > > I'd like to update udev on my SuSE 9.2 in order to be able to use a more > recent kernel version. Since there is no precompiled package for my > system newer than 0.5, I will have to built it myself. > > I downloaded udev-079.tar.gz and the compilation was ok. Then I used > "checkinstall" to create a rpm-package. When I tried to install that > package I was told > > error: Failed dependencies: > libsysfs.so.1 is needed by (installed) 3ddiag-0.722-2.1 > libsysfs.so.1 is needed by (installed) yast2-core-2.10.16-2.1 > libsysfs.so.1 is needed by (installed) hwinfo-9.31-1.1 > libsysfs.so.1 is needed by (installed) sysconfig-0.31.3-17.4 > libsysfs.so.1 is needed by (installed) hotplugctl-0.08-266.1 > > That's funny because the source of libsysfs is included in the package > udev-079.tar.gz but obviously "make" ignores it. No, it isn't ignored, but it is built into udev, instead of separately. > Which command line option do I have to use so that libsysfs will also be > build when "make" is called? You can't do that, SuSE patched the udev version for 9.2 to create a separate libsysfs version. I wouldn't try to mess around with this at all, if you want to use a new udev, please upgrade to SuSE 10, which has a much newer version. good luck, greg k-h ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idv37&alloc_id865&op=click _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel