New version of udev, which as always, has bugfixes. Major new features to note are:
* This version of udev now installs a library that is installed in a diffrent location than usual. Because of this, exec_prefix and udev_prefix cannot be used anymore. This presents a problem for LFS, because we use exec_prefix in configure. Udev now provides the --libdir, --with-rootlibdir, and --libexecdir options. So here is the revised configure command for udev: ./configure --prefix=/usr \ --sysconfdir=/etc \ --sbindir=/sbin \ --libdir=/usr/lib \ --with-rootlibdir=/lib \ --libexecdir=/lib/udev \ --disable-extras Why --disable-extras? You'll see why below... * Event processes get recycled after a event. This awesome stuff reduces cpu load, and the amount of forks. Isn't that awesome? * Udev now needs kernel >= 2.6.25, because it uses signalfd(), so if your host system has kernel < 2.6.25, well... Also, the host system now needs inotify support for Udev to work. * The Udev quere format has changed. /dev/.udev/quere doesn't exist anymore. You now get the quere by running udevadm settle or through the new library libudedv. * Libudev is now finally stable!!!!!! That's a major milestone for Udev... * Libudev now has it's own documentation. I think we should install that too. A online version of the libudev docs is available here: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/libudev Also, the documentation is now build using gtk-doc, just so you know. * The Udev-extras git repo is now merged into udev starting with this version. The extras, however, depend on these packages: acl, glib2, libusb, usbutils >= 0.82 (I found this out the hard way, as for those who haven't noticed, usbutils is still making new releases.), pciutils, and gpref These packages are all in BLFS (with a exception for acl), but, I don't want to add all these packages to LFS. That's why I put --disable-extras in my revised configure. I don't think the extras include write_cd_rules and write_net_rules. I had to send this email to lfs-dev because I can't use the Trac system. William -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
