UPEK/TouchChip Biometric Device problem

[Patrick Tracanelli]

> First, you cross-posted to way too many lists, ports@ would probably
> have been the most appropriate as this has nothing to do with FreeBSD
> itself.

Believed it to be related to recent system changes.

> 
>>
>> All threads purged from ugen1.1
>> All threads purged from ugen1.2
>> All threads purged from ugen1.3
> 
> Harmless, as far as I know.
> 
>>
>> What is this about "threads purged"? Also, the port want libintl.so.6 
>> while 6.2-STABLE has libintl.so.8. I have tried 1) linking .8 to .6 
>> and also copied .6 from another system (also, 6.2-STABLE) to the 
>> current one. Didnt work both way. Same behavior, exactly.
> 
> This is because of a gettext library bump, I just found out about it 
> (although it happened in march), and I have know good solution to it.
> Installing an old version of gettext should of course work, but that's
> ugly.

So, this has nothing to do with the fact that the device can not be 
initiated?

> 
>>
>> On 7.0-CURRENT things are worse. libpthread is not found, and the same 
>> command core dumps. Anyway, 6.2-STABLE is more important to me right 
>> now, since I need this device to work on FreeBSD for an ongoing 
>> project, but if a solution to 7.0 happens first my work can move to 
>> that version.
>>
> 
> This is life with binary only, closed source applications. Things might
> have been slightly better if this was statically linked but
> unfortunately that's not the case.
> misc/compat6x should hopefully cover the threading though.

Tried with, compat6x, no difference. Also tried with libpthread as 
denoted on current's /usr/src/UPDATING, also, same behavior.

> 
> When I get some spare time, I'll try to ping my contact at UPEK,
> but last time I heard from them they were developing a new version
> but nothing have been released yet, so things aren't looking good.

> If nothing works out, I'm afraid this port have seen its last days.
> 
> Fredrik