Hello all, Those who've been following the list in the last couple days may have seen some mention of libsysdev, a library that aims to provide an easy-to-use API to get information about devices from sysfs. It's available from git at: git://github.com/idunham/libsysdev.git
I've just released libsysdev 0.1.0. Source code may be found at: https://github.com/idunham/libsysdev/archive/0.1.0.tar.gz (I'll have to tag releases using a different approach.) The license is a "0-clause BSD" license, meaning that you can do anything you want, without any conditions beyond what the laws of your country impose on all software. This new release exports 5 functions, features pkg-config/pkgconf support, has a small sample program at util/devinfo.c, and provides man pages for the library and the sample program (libsysdev.3 and util/devinfo.1). There's an initial port of xf86-input-evdev to libsysdev at: https://github.com/idunham/xf86-input-evdev Notes for packagers/builders: It's built with make (gnu make/freebsd-make/pmake should work equally well), configured only using variables that you can set on the command line. eg: make CFLAGS="-O2 -g0" CC=gcc make install LIBDIR=/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu Other than LIBDIR and CFLAGS, the defaults should be suitable for a debian/devuan package. The header and docs can be shared by all arches. Release notes: Announcing libsysdev 0.1.0, the first public release. libsysdev is a library to get information about devices from sysfs. No daemons are required; it should be equally compatible with udev, mdev, and static /dev. Requirements are as follows: *libc supporting _XOPEN_SOURCE=700 or _XOPEN_SOURCE=600 + _ATFILE_SOURCE, and exposing major()/minor() with _BSD_SOURCE defined. *c89 or more current compiler. *Linux kernel, with sysfs mounted. Non-Linux systems don't use sysfs, so this won't work. sysfs was introduced in Linux 2.5.x. *pkg-config or pkgconf is recommended for development using libsysdev, but building with -lsysdev should work. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
