Re: CPU temperature thermal

On 10/02/2010 05:36 PM, Bill Wilson wrote:
> On Sat, 02 Oct 2010 15:38:41 +0200
> Stefan Gehn<[email protected]>  wrote:
>
>> Last but not least I'd recommend using libsensors support in GKrellM
>> (unfortunately Debian disabled libsensors-usage in its gkrellm-package)
>> instead of relying on any of the above directories.
>
> LIbsensors is the preferred interface for Gkrellm and the only interface that will be
> up to date on supporting correct voltage scaling factors and offsets for recent
> sensor chips.  Does anyone know why Debian (and consequently Ubuntu)
> has disabled using libsensors?

I can only think of keeping the dependency list as low as possible. I 
have just CC'd Sandro Tosi (maintainer of the GKrellM-package in Debian) 
so hopefully he can shed some light on it.

I have already thought about loading libsensors at runtime to make it an 
optional dependency but with the filename varying between versions (and 
possibly distros) I'm still not sure how dynamically loading shared 
libraries is supposed to work on Linux. The libtool docs recommend 
parsing the .la file but that one is usually found in the 
development-package which end-users don't have installed.

Bye,
Stefan Gehn

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