This seems to work well. I used it with audio/ifp-line for my MP3 player and with graphics/gphoto2 for my camera. No problems at all. It was a perfect drop in replacement for 0.1.7. All I had to do was add a symlink because of the version number differences.
PDQ On Sat, 2005-02-26 at 16:57 -0700, John Reynolds wrote: > Hello all, I know that I have been veeeeeeeeery slow in arriving at this > point. My life has been sucked away recently with a large project at work. > Such > is "open source" .... > > But at long last I have devoted some cycles to updating the libusb port for > FreeBSD. However, since there has been such a long cycle between updates, and > many changes to the code I wanted to roll a binary package file and have > people > test out with existing apps before I submitted the PR to have the port files > themselves changed. > > The version in the tree right now is 0.1.7. Johannes has released 0.1.10a just > a few weeks ago and it looks like it has many changes to the BSD code (with > what looks like some the integration of some patches which previously were > applied by the port itself). > > So, for those who enjoy libusb on a daily basis like me, can you please fetch > the following: > > http://www.reynoldsnet.org/libusb-0.1.10a.tbz > > and pkg_add it then test out your apps? You might have to go swizzle some soft > links in /usr/local/lib if your apps linked to libusb-0.1.so.7 because he's > changed the version number of the lib to "8" so what this pkg installs is > libusb-0.1.so.8. > > I only use libusb with a single application to snarf pictures off my digital > camera, but I'm sure others use it for many other things. The wider the > testing, the better. I will roll the port changes and have them ready to > send-pr if I receive all "thumbs up" messages. > > Thank you, > > -Jr > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
