"David Bourgeois" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Still working hard on the sleep and id update. Most stuff work now but
> it's still very unstable due mainly to the new RF firmware.
> I'd like to publish a preview of the firmwares on tomorrow so you can
> give it a shot if you want.
I'm willing to test it \o.
> OTH I'm thinking about this major firmware update for lambda users.
> When they just bought their tux, it seems they're quickly discouraged
> by the firmware update procedure and some get into much troubles
> compiling and installing dfu-programmer. tuxup already facilitates
> the use of dfu-programmer but including a binary of dfu-programmer
> would remove that burden.
>
> A few questions:
>
> - Is it a good idea?
The binary would have to work on all distributions and platforms. I
myself don't like binaries too much (but then, I've been a Gentoo user
for quite some time now, which might explain...)
> - I guess we can freely redistribute dfu-programmer in a binary only
> format, but I may be wrong. dfu-programmer is under GPL. Do I have to
> attach a license file with the binary or display the license
> somewhere?
You have to make the sources available, but not necessarily bundled
with the binary. A readme with an URL to download the sources from
should suffice.
> - If I compile it on my linux box, what is it supposed to run on? As
> long as you have the dependencies, should it work on any computer or
> are there other stuff to take into account? I'm thinking about BSD,
> OSX, ...
Library versions, as you point out below, may break your application.
> ldd /usr/local/bin/dfu-programmer
> linux-gate.so.1 => (0xffffe000)
> libusb-0.1.so.4 => /lib/libusb-0.1.so.4 (0xb7f21000)
> libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0xb7df9000)
> /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7f43000)
What makes it hard for joe user to compile ? Couldn't it be seamlessly
integrated in the "tuxup procedure" (neved used it) ?
Damien
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