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[Ron Clarke <ariadne AT earthlink.com.au>]

Hi Folks,

On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 14:03:08 -0800
David Moberg <davidjmoberg AT gmail.com> wrote:

> On 11/17/05, Ron Clarke <ariadne AT earthlink.com.au> wrote:
> > Hi Folks,
> >
> <snip>
> >    The module seems to load just fine.
> >
> >     Unfortunately, libgphoto2 failed to compile in BL2 (even with the usb
> > modules insmodded), so I didn't even attempt to compile gphoto2.
> 
> Try a static compile in SW9.1?

    I thought about that, but I wouldn't know how to go about it.

 
> cd gphoto2-2.1.4
> rm -f gphoto2/gphoto2
> make | grep gcc | sed -e "s/gcc/gcc -static/" >tmp
> cd gphoto2
> `cat ../tmp`
> 
> (note that the quotes on the last line are ` marks, not ' or " marks)

    I did all of that, exactly as written.  

    All that happened was that I got an extra file called "tmp" that 
consisted of a sequence of (to me) meaningless statements.

    But no visible executable that wasn't there before.
 
> >     For this particular camera, I think I am stuck with using SW9.1. Which
> > is no big deal.

    I think I will stick with this - booting SW9.1 - it is less complicated 
than booting BL2 with a different kernel, insmodding some stuff, and then 
attempting to run something I still cannot compile successfully anyway 
(except in SW9.1).

> 
> Or you could copy the libraries over from SW9.1.

   I did an LDD on gphoto2 - there are a lot of those libraries missing from 
my version of BL2, not just libgphoto2 related.
   I still have vivid memories of when I added some other extra libraries to 
this installation before, and it took a long time, complete removal of all 
those ill-fitting libraries and re-writing of all the symlinks, and much 
patience from Stephen, to get it to even boot again. 
   I am not going to risk doing that again, especially with an installation 
of BL2/SW7.1 that is becoming more mission-critical every week. I think I 
will keep access to this camera restricted to SW9.1, where it just simply 
works.

   But thanks for trying.  All that info will be useful when I "upgrade" to a 
better camera, i.e. one that doesn't use PTP.

Regards,
         Ron

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Ron Clarke 
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