Re: [VCDImager Bugs/Devel] vcdimager for BSD/OS

[Herbert Valerio Riedel]

thx,
you don't happen to know how to write autoconf tests for those
capatibilites to be checked?

btw, what would happen if the libdvd was not linked in? which symbols
would be unresolved? (this information would be usefull for autoconf
tests)



On Sat, 12 May 2001, Steven M. Schultz wrote:

> Greetings --
>
>       vcdimager-0.6.2rc3 now works, with the patch below, on BSD/OS using
>       the "libdvd" (a userland library that emulates the linux DVD and VCD
>       ioctls).
>
>       For the most part the changes (which were surprisingly small and few)
>       consisted of changing "#ifdef __linux__" to be "#if defined(__linux__)
>       || defined(__bsdi__)".    A couple portability changes (integer type
>       declarations, etc) were added with "#ifdef __bsdi__ ... #endif"
>       statements and the magic "#include <dvd.h>" added in one or two places.
>
>       The only thing I did not know how to do properly was add in the
>       reference to "-ldvd".   I manually editing the one Makefile.am and
>       added -ldvd but that's certainly wrong.
>
>       If you've any questions feel free to write back.
>
>       I've tested this (and spent the eve riping VCDs ;)) with BSD/OS 4.2
>       but it should run on any BSD/OS release with the 'generic scsi'
>       capability.    Also tested were both ATAPI and SCSI drives (BSDI
>       has a real nice SCSI over ATAPI layer) and everything "just worked".
>
>       Cheers.
>
>       Steven Schultz
>       address@hidden


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