Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 13:40:03 -0800 (PST) From: Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/24703: libusb - new port - MAINTAINER - shar archive attached Message-ID: <200101282140.f0SLe3V35703@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR ports/24703; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu> To: John Reynolds <jjreynold@home.com> Cc: Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>, FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports/24703: libusb - new port - MAINTAINER - shar archive attached Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 16:35:45 -0500 --7iMSBzlTiPOCCT2k Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 02:27:10PM -0700, John Reynolds wrote: > Not that I'm aware of, though I don't pretend to know the intricacies of = it > all. From what I can gather, our own "libusb" which resides in /usr/lib m= ight > provide all that's necessary to talk to USB devices. I have never > tried. However, programs originally written under Linux that were hacked > together when their USB kernel was coming along, started using "their" > libusb. It is a specific "userland" API that the programs have been writt= en > to. My favorite of these is S10sh (http://www.kyuzz.org/antirez/s10sh.htm= l).=20 > When I originally compiled this program I tried to link it against "our" > libusb to no avail. Only recently after the efforts of Richard Tobin, do > things now "work" since S10sh, gphoto, etc. all use "their" libusb API. It sucks that libusb isn't as standardized as I thought it was. > This is as much as I know, not being an authoritative expert. I just know= "it > works" and finally had the time to roll a port of the library (I received > commit priv's on the libusb project in order to get it "cleaned up" for > FreeBSD which is happening slowly). Wow, that's cool that someone can directly influence the tree for FreeBSD. Let me know if you need help. I am fairly desperate to get my Kodak DC290 camera to work; libgphoto2 looks cool, but it doesn't work for various reasons (like the fact that their configure scripts are fucked up due to some weird autoconf thing). --=20 wca P.S. Your mailer's wrapping is too large; I can't display 80 characters w/o wrapping. --7iMSBzlTiPOCCT2k Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6dJCxF47idPgWcsURAtb+AJ0U+IsXMEX/i8suvzAQJO8b/bKizACePdtg eC7npbEmS+Xt2Dq0LVOFAzk= =mak2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --7iMSBzlTiPOCCT2k-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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