[Rxtx] missing ParallelPort.java

[Trent Jarvi]

On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Ákos Maróy wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to compile rxtx 2.0 on a Mac, and it seems that
> ParallelPort.java is missing from the tarball. I get the following error:
>
> Error: Class gnu.io.ParallelPort could not be found.
> make: ***
> [/Users/nextlab/src/serial/rxtx-2.0-7pre1/gnu/io/Configure.class] Error 15
>
>
> I get the same error with 2.0-7pre1 and pre2.
>
> copying the missing file from rxtx-2.1-7pre7 reveals that there are even
> more files missing. in total:
>
> ParallelPort.java
> CommPort.java
> SerialPort.java
>
>
> there's another issue, which persits in both 2.0 and 2.1: the object file
> SerilaImp.o is actually generated as SerialImp.lo. thus one gets the
> following error when linking the JNI shared object:
>
> powerpc-apple-darwin8-gcc-4.0.0:
> /Users/nextlab/src/serial/rxtx-2.0-7pre1/powerpc-apple-darwin8.2.0/SerialImp.o:
> No such file or directory
>
> copying SerialImp.lo to SerialImp.o resolves the issue.
>
>

Hi Akos

This and your next email concerning missing files suggest you are going 
about recreating rxtx 2.1 with rxtx 2.0.  The files you are missing are in 
CommAPI from Sun and just a few files are needed in rxtx 2.0 to work with 
the files Sun provides.

Mixing rxtx 2.1 and 2.0 isnt a good idea as many of the source files need 
to be modified to support the different packages.  There could easily bee 
problems with Mac OS X parallel support though.  Most of the work has been 
for rxtx 2.1 Serial Ports in rxtx.