libusb and usbutils

[Matthew Burgess]

On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 02:14:14 -0600, Bruce Dubbs <bruce.dubbs at gmail.com> wrote:
> We have a problem with libusb and usbutils.
> 
> libusb has released 1.0.0 on 2008-12-13.
> usbutils is at version 0.73 released on 2007-10-24.
> 
> 1.  Just leave out usbutils for now.
> 2.  Revert to the earlier version of libusb.
> 3.  Try to hack usbutils to use the new libusb.  Looking at the code, this
> is
> non-trivial and I don't have the time or inclination to do it.
> 4.  Try to install both the old and new versions simultaneously.
> 5.  There is a libusb-compat-0.1 compatibility layer.  It aims to look,
> feel and
> behave exactly like libusb-0.1. As it is a replacement, you cannot install
> it
> alongside libusb-0.1 on the same system.
> 

FWIW, I went with 5) when I stumbled across this, and haven't had any issues
with it.  If/when the other packages are updated to work with the latest
version of libusb's API, it then becomes a simple job of just removing the
compatibility package from the book.

(ccing blfs-dev, please post follow-ups there).

Regards,

Matt.