tpctl release candidate 0.5.3 -- please try

[Andreas Loebel]

"J.d.thomas Hood" wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> tpctl has been coming along and now has the capability to change
> the i/o-addresses and irqs of the serial and parallel ports
> (only the "live" settings, though--not those stored in CMOS RAM).
>
> Version 0.5.3 is a candidate for release as a "stable version" (0.6.0)
> but I'd like to have it better tested before announding it on Freshmeat.
> It would be very helpful to me if many of you would download this release,
> install it and test out its features.  Please send me reports of how
> the whole process goes.
>
> Unlike the functions that were implemented in 0.3.x, the resource-control
> features that have been added in 0.5.x talk directly to hardware registers:
> they do not make use of the SMAPI BIOS built into most ThinkPads.
> Consequently there is a greater risk that these features will not work
> on every ThinkPad--although they have proved to work on a ThinkPad 600,
> a ThinkPad 770X and a ThinkPad 380Z.  Feedback about these features
> would be especially useful to me.
>
> Download the rpm and/or the tarball via:
>    http://jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu/~thood/tpctlhome.htm
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Thomas Hood                                                thood@jhu.edu

Hi,

It is not a good idea to automatically modify  /etc/ld.so.conf - it's like in
Windows :-(, you have almost no control!
Much more better  would be (in my opinion) to link tpctl as follows, which
makes it independet from the current library paths in ld.so.conf:

tpctl: tpctl.o libsmapidev.so
 $(CC) $(CFLAGS) -o tpctl -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/usr/local/lib -L. -lsmapidev
tpctl.o

Nevertheless, a nice tool!


Andreas