cdrtools: MacPorts version doesn't work as expected but manually compiled one does

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Aug 18, 2013, at 15:16, Davide Liessi wrote:

> I installed cdrtools both with MacPorts and manually compiling it.
> MacPorts' installation cannot find the DVD drive, but manual installation does.
> Compare, for example, the output of "cdrecord -scanbus":
> 
> $ /opt/local/bin/cdrecord -scanbus
> Cdrecord-ProDVD-ProBD-Clone 3.00 (i386-apple-macosx10.8.0) Copyright
> (C) 1995-2010 J?rg Schilling
> /opt/local/bin/cdrecord: Unknown error: 0. No matching device
> IOBDServices/15 found.. Cannot open or use SCSI driver.
> /opt/local/bin/cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'.
> /opt/local/bin/cdrecord: For possible transport specifiers try
> 'cdrecord dev=help'.

I also get this, but then again I don't have an optical drive. I have not tried compiling cdrtools outside of MacPorts. Could you describe your manual compilation in more detail? Exact commands you used? I'll bet it differs in some way from what MacPorts does.