Robert Millan writes: > In theory you can use a parallel port portably,
Thanks for the prompt reply. Oh yes, I intend to do more. But first I need to get around to installing a test box of my own with Debian kfreebsd-i386 and hurd-i386. My search turned up a post of yours from 2003: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg06309.html any chance that has made it into the Debian hurd kernel of today? It's the hurd port that has me more worried. I found "man ppi" for bsd, and http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg06309.html so I can see a way to get that working. I notice too that sane-backends FSBFS on hurd: https://buildd.debian.org/~luk/status/package.php?p=sane-backends although the error doesn't seem related to parallel port access. Is it likely that the hurd API would mimic the Linux ppdev.h ioctls, or mimic the BSD ppbus/ppi.h ones, ... or does the hurd have a completely different set? I still have to make a leap of faith and write some code that will build. I'm open to suggestions has to what C pre-processor #defines I should be using to determine what to do. Maybe I will just rely on dpkg-architecture -qDEB_BUILD_ARCH_OS in the debian/rules to handle things. -Maitland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
