Re: libusb and libusb-compat: conflict

[Philip Balister <philip@balister.org>]

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Can you get the packages that use libusb to use libusb-compat? The only 
package I know of that does not work with libusb1 is gnuradio (gnuradio 
looks inside private libusb structures).

Philip

Mike (mwester) wrote:
> There appears to be a conflict between libusb and libusb-compat -- both
> stage usr/lib/libusb.a.
> 
> Many packages in OE use libusb-compat; some others use libusb.  I can't
> say why this conflict hasn't come up before -- perhaps its a build order
> thing that has just popped up on my system -- but attempting to link
> openocd or dfu-util (which DEPEND on libusb) against the libusb.a in
> staging will fail, if it was libusb-compat that was staged overtop of
> libusb.
> 
> I think step one would be to put a "CONFLICTS" line in each of libusb
> and libusb-compat's bb files -- but I suspect that will break a lot of
> builds.  So I'll send an email out for comments and suggestions on how
> to handle this little problem.
> 
> It would be good if people can check their tmpdirs to see if both libusb
> and libusb-compat are being built (libusb1 is fine - not the similarity
> in name).  How big a problem is this?
> 
> Regards,
> Mike (mwester)
> 
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