From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 28 03:20:22 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF88E16A4CE; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 03:20:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mta10.adelphia.net (mta10.adelphia.net [68.168.78.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26AC243D53; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 03:20:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pdquilty@adelphia.net) Received: from pdq-9100 ([67.22.208.158]) by mta10.adelphia.net (InterMail vM.6.01.04.01 201-2131-118-101-20041129) with ESMTP id <20050228032021.FURJ6134.mta10.adelphia.net@pdq-9100>; Sun, 27 Feb 2005 22:20:21 -0500 From: "Peter D. Quilty" To: John Reynolds In-Reply-To: <16929.3285.129783.696868@whale.home-net> References: <16929.3285.129783.696868@whale.home-net> Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 22:20:20 -0500 Message-Id: <1109560820.80216.8.camel@pdq-9100> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.4 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 cc: ports@freebsd.org cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CALL FOR TESTERS: new candidate for libusb port X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Peter D. Quilty" List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 03:20:23 -0000 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 >