Re: Trying to compile udev + libsysfs

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 08:50:11PM +0100, Wolfgang Klein wrote:
> Greg KH wrote:
> 
> >
> > You can't do that, SuSE patched the udev version for 9.2 to create a
> > separate libsysfs version.
> 
> Is there any chance that libsysfs can be built separately, again?

With the current udev package?  No.  In fact, it's about to just be
ripped out entirely from udev, we've had a lot of problems with it in
the past :(

> If so: can this be done by someone who isn't a fulltime programmer, eg:
> me? ;-)

No, I can't even do it :)

> If not, how about creating a dummy-rpm that will only contain one file
> (libsysfs.so.1), to fulfill the dependencies for those few programms
> that still need it?

Good luck doing that :)

Why do you want to upgrade udev?  It's such a low-level part of a Linux
distribution, I would not suggest upgrading it unless you really know
what you are doing.  I'd really suggest just upgrading your whole
distro.

> > 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.
> 
> When I will upgrade my system (and I don't mean "*if* I will upgrade"!),
> it won't surely be another SuSE system, because I've had much to much
> trouble with SuSE's distributions.

Sorry to hear that.  But you might find that the 10.0 release is a lot
nicer in regards to udev usage, now that SuSE has a few of us working
for them :)

If not, then I know that RedHat Fedora, Gentoo, and Debian all have
up-to-date udev support working just fine.

Good luck,

greg k-h


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