hald spins in a poll/read loop against /dev/usb with CURRENT

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 18:18 -0400, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Sep 2009, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> >>
> >> I've rebuilt hald (hal-0.5.11_26) after checking out 8/stable under
> >> /usr/src/sys. Same problem. A spin loop of poll/read, with /dev/usb
> >> responding to poll() but not to read().
> >
> > Insufficient.  You need to be running on a world/kernel which are in
> > sync with each other.  You also need to make sure the libusb port is no
> > longer installed, and that you have run "make delete-old" after the
> > upgrade.  Then rebuild hal.
> 
> With regard to the libusb port problems, shouldn't the
> ports prefer/configure to use libusb20 when it is present,
> so that it wouldn't matter if libusb was installed or not?

Hal will (must) use libusb20 on a newusb system.  If the devel/libusb
port is installed, hal will fail build.  On oldusb, libusb is not used
by hal, and hal doesn't care if it's present.

Joe

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