Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 11:45:40 -0700 (MST) From: John Reynolds~ <jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com> To: patl@phoenix.volant.org Cc: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: libusb now works on FreeBSD (beta) Message-ID: <14823.22612.514778.485090@hip186.ch.intel.com> In-Reply-To: <ML-3.4.971462370.1738.patl@asimov.phoenix.volant.org> References: <14823.13476.758345.312739@hip186.ch.intel.com> <ML-3.4.971462370.1738.patl@asimov.phoenix.volant.org>
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[ On Friday, October 13, patl@phoenix.volant.org wrote: ] > On 13-Oct-00 at 09:47, John Reynolds~ (jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com) wrote: > > > > [ On Friday, October 13, Richard Tobin wrote: ] > > > > > > It is an unrelated library of the same name. > > > > ... > > > > The "port" of this library (when I get it done) will definitely install > > under /usr/local (or whatever PREFIX is). As long as gPhoto and others use > > the installed libusb-config script during their configure ops, we shouldn't > > have problems linking to the wrong library: > > It would still be better if it used a unique name. I know that > may cause portability issues; but they shouldn't be too difficult > to handle (the libusb-config script can probably deal with it). I certainly agree. I'm all ears as to how best to handle it. Suggestions? I will talk to Johannes (the "leader" of the libusb project) and see if we can change its name to something else too. Maybe "libusbio" since it's real purpose in life is to provide user-land apps with an API for probing the bus, opening the proper device and snarfing bits to and from USB devices. I'll see what he says. He's had a "freebsd.c" file in his repo forever and a day with the eventual hope of supporting FreeBSD. It stood literally empty for a while until Richard started hacking. Now that we've got a working prototype and there already are "libusb.so" libraries on FreeBSD (and I'm assuming NetBSD since that's where we got it from), maybe a name change is called for. I dunno. -Jr -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= | John Reynolds WCCG, CCE, Higher Levels of Abstraction | | Intel Corporation MS: CH6-210 Phone: 480-554-9092 pgr: 602-868-6512 | | jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com http://www-aec.ch.intel.com/~jreynold/ | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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