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Re: svn commit: r234684 - head/lib/libusb



On Friday 27 April 2012 20:58:56 Robert Millan wrote:
> El 26 d’abril de 2012 23:55, Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net> ha 
escrit:
> >> By linux libusb do you mean the one from http://www.libusb.org/ ?
> >> AFAIK this one is a portable library, at least it builds on
> >> GNU/kFreeBSD too.
> > 
> > The one from libusb.org does not work under FreeBSD.
> 

Hi,

> Can you be more specific about this?  We've got around 80 packages
> that are linking with this library.  If it's really broken, we
> probably need to change the build dependencies and rebuild every of
> them.

Are these packages built with libusb header files from the FreeBSD USB library 
or the libusb.org library? If the libusb.org header files are used, then 
updating the FreeBSD USB library will fix some issues. Else not.

> 
> Are you sure it's completely useless?

Currently only python-libusb will be fixed when using the latest version of 
LibUSB from FreeBSD 10-current.

> 
> >> Ok, but if you changed ABI in 10-current, then please do bump the
> >> soname.  We have a huge amount of trouble every time an ABI bump is
> >> missed (this happened with libgeom a while ago).
> > 
> > Yes, this is done now.
> 

--HPS


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