MobileRead Forums - View Single Post

eschwartz · 11-28-2015, 08:34 PM

Well, my distro is up to date (ArchLinux).

You can always tell if it is a distro calibre, because the traceback will reference source files from "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/"

Or in my case, "/home/eschwartz/git/calibre/src/calibre/"

I've been ignoring that error for a long time now, since I don't use iDevices and most of them are probably running iOS>=8.3 and have issues with Marvin (#1 user of libimobiledevice in calibre I believe) it seemed pointless to care just for linux users who compiled calibre from source (<=distros).

Never realized that that was causing this plugin to do weird things.

Anyway, Kovid committed a fix so calibre will try to fallback on the unversioned soname: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibr...bd338e16c3fe59

So the upcoming calibre 2.46 will no longer run into problems when a linux distro updates libimobiledevice and the calibre binary package doesn't.
I can't promise distros will package the new version.

11-28-2015, 08:34 PM	#218
eschwartz Ex-Helpdesk Junkie Posts: 19,421 Karma: 85400180 Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: The Beaten Path, USA, Roundworld, This Side of Infinity Device: Kindle Touch fw5.3.7 (Wifi only)	Well, my distro is up to date (ArchLinux). You can always tell if it is a distro calibre, because the traceback will reference source files from "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/" Or in my case, "/home/eschwartz/git/calibre/src/calibre/" I've been ignoring that error for a long time now, since I don't use iDevices and most of them are probably running iOS>=8.3 and have issues with Marvin (#1 user of libimobiledevice in calibre I believe) it seemed pointless to care just for linux users who compiled calibre from source (<=distros). Never realized that that was causing this plugin to do weird things. Anyway, Kovid committed a fix so calibre will try to fallback on the unversioned soname: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibr...bd338e16c3fe59 So the upcoming calibre 2.46 will no longer run into problems when a linux distro updates libimobiledevice and the calibre binary package doesn't. I can't promise distros will package the new version.