[Buildroot] [PATCH 0/1] python-pylibftdi new package

[Yegor Yefremov]

Hi Christian,


On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 2:26 PM, Christian Kellermann
<christian.kellermann at solectrix.de> wrote:
> Dear List,
>
> This patch adds the python binding for libftdi. However it contains a
> hackish patch which I would like to discuss. Pylibftdi uses the ctypes
> find_library call to find the libusb and libftdi libraries. This in
> turn seems to rely on ldconfig which is not part of buildroot.
>
> Patching it out here seems to work fine, but this kind of hides the
> general problem of fixing find_library in the python package. How
> would one do this properly?

This is a known problem and so far there is no proper solution. So I
think the patch is acceptable.

Btw. have you tried libftdi's native Python support via SWIG?
pylibftdi hasn't reached version 1.0.0 and the project hasn't been
updated since September 2015.

Yegor