Re: RXTX/Java serial action

[Adam Majer <adamm@galacticasoftware.com>]

On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 12:20:25AM -0800, Nicole Zimmerman wrote:
> 
> ref: http://www.rxtx.org
> 
> Anyone gotten a recent version of RXTX to work either by:
> 
> 1) Compiling from source
> 2) Using the RXTX binaries
> or,
> 3) Alien-izing an RPM or other package?

1. probably works but I haven't set up java which is needed as configure
looks for java clases...

2. here's the output from ldd

mira:/tmp/rxtx-bins.1/1.5/i386-pc-linux> ldd *
libParallel-1.5.8.so:
        libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x40010000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40026000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x80000000)
libParallel.so:
        libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x40010000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40026000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x80000000)
libSerial-1.5.8.so:
        libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x40016000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4002c000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x80000000)
libSerial.so:
        libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x40016000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4002c000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x80000000)

So I guess they work - all depends are satisfied for binary
distro....

FYI: There is really no difference b/w RedHat and Debian when it comes
to software compatability. At least for i386 arch as RedHat only
seems to support Intel..

> I have some people that I work with claiming that RXTX isn't working with
> debian even though it "works fine with redhat" and therefore we should
> make the "obvious choice" and switch to redhat.

Have you tried it?? :)