This driver has been unmaintained for years, and was never good code
to begin with. It's also questionable whether it was ever useful,
particularly with the demo driver now supporting various analog
signalling.
Instead of >= 44 Makefile.am's we now only have one top-level
Makefile.am, and use the 'subdir-objects' automake option to
handle the build via non-recursive (auto)make.
This has the advantage of fewer (boilerplate or other) files and less
clutter in general, as well as performance advantages since the new
setup can build many files in parallel (with 'make -j'), not only 2 or 3
files within the same (e.g. hardware/xxxx/* subdirectory) and also since
we no longer need to build intermediate libtool helper libs per subdirectory.
A quick, non-scientific test build on a quad-core laptop with 'make -j 4'
yields a build time reduction from 35s to 19s.
All autotools features that worked before are still intact without any
regressions, including the Make targets 'install', 'uninstall', 'check',
'dist', 'clean', 'distclean' and so on, as well as all the usual portability
handling (build works on any OS, with any Make implementation such as
GNU Make or BSD Make, with any shell such as sh/ksh/zsh/bash/dash, etc. etc.)
and features such as out-of-tree build support, cross-compile support,
testsuite support (also with colored output), "silent make rules", etc. etc.
This gets us the libusb version checking mechanism itself, hopefully
making this sort of thing easier in future.
Also hotplug, device tree traversal, and lots of fixes.
Disable drivers that need serial port support if libserialport is not found.
Also, disable building various other serial port related code in that case.
The libtool current:revision:age numbers change from 1:1:0 to 1:2:0
(i.e., revision is increased) since the library source code has changed,
but no interfaces were added or changed or removed.
Details:
http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/manual/libtool.html#Updating-version-info
This changes the library filename (e.g. on Linux) from libsigrok.so.1.0.1
to libsigrok.so.1.0.2, but the SONAME (+symlink) remains the same
(libsigrok.so.1) since this release is API- and ABI-compatible with the last.
We now use zip_int64_t and zip_get_num_entries() for example, which
requires at least libzip 0.10. This version was released in 03/2012,
which is old enough that we don't necessarily have to do a work-around
for older versions. Thus, simply bump the requirement to >= 0.10.
Martin Ling
Bert Vermeulen
Uwe Hermann
Aurelien Jacobs
Matthias Heidbrink
Daniel Elstner
Marc Schink
poljar (Damir Jelić)
Dan Horák
Matthias Heidbrink
Marcus Comstedt