Re: UPEK/TouchChip Biometric Device problem

Patrick Tracanelli wrote:
> Hello all,

First, you cross-posted to way too many lists, ports@ would probably
have been the most appropriate as this has nothing to do with FreeBSD
itself.

> 
> All threads purged from ugen1.1
> All threads purged from ugen1.2
> All threads purged from ugen1.3

Harmless, as far as I know.

> 
> What is this about "threads purged"? Also, the port want libintl.so.6 
> while 6.2-STABLE has libintl.so.8. I have tried 1) linking .8 to .6 and 
> also copied .6 from another system (also, 6.2-STABLE) to the current 
> one. Didnt work both way. Same behavior, exactly.

This is because of a gettext library bump, I just found out about it 
(although it happened in march), and I have know good solution to it.
Installing an old version of gettext should of course work, but that's
ugly.

> 
> On 7.0-CURRENT things are worse. libpthread is not found, and the same 
> command core dumps. Anyway, 6.2-STABLE is more important to me right 
> now, since I need this device to work on FreeBSD for an ongoing project, 
> but if a solution to 7.0 happens first my work can move to that version.
> 

This is life with binary only, closed source applications. Things might
have been slightly better if this was statically linked but
unfortunately that's not the case.
misc/compat6x should hopefully cover the threading though.

When I get some spare time, I'll try to ping my contact at UPEK,
but last time I heard from them they were developing a new version
but nothing have been released yet, so things aren't looking good.

If nothing works out, I'm afraid this port have seen its last days.

Fredrik
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