Re: [avrdude-dev] avrftdi TPI support

[Hannes Weisbach]

Am 05.05.2013 um 15:49 schrieb René Liebscher:

> Hi,
> 
> at my Ubuntu 12.10 avrftdi is no longer available. The reason is that it 
> checks for some ftdi1, which is not found here. (I have installed libftdi1!) 
> If I define HAVE_LIBFTDI1 for myself and change the includes from 
> libftdi1/ftdi1.h to ftdi.h it works as before.
> 
> René
> 
Then Ubuntu puts the header in the wrong directory. I use the git HEAD for 
testing. You get ftdi.h also when you have libftdi-0.x installed (How does 
Ubuntu handle a libftdi-0.x/libftdi1 co-installation?). ftdi.h unfortunately 
has no version information itself, however a function call 
ftdi_get_library_version() is available, returning a struct ftdi_version_info. 
I don't know if it is possible to have autoconf/autotools compile a test 
program an parse its output for version information.
This leaves the issue, that putting headers in different directories makes the 
code rather ugly, because it has to handle all eventualities.

Best regards,
Hannes