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| author | Mike Westerhof <mwester@dls.net> | 2008-12-31 15:03:49 -0600 |
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| committer | Mike Westerhof <mwester@dls.net> | 2008-12-31 15:06:44 -0600 |
| commit | 9f0e7ad2abce9435db48ea26bf7192c3d0209a0e (patch) | |
| tree | 2da762864c70749279ecf455151155454af8fd97 | |
| parent | 8183f7566af38505c4bfba5b292864e21f7d642a (diff) | |
libusb: create dummy libusb version to pull in libusb-compat instead.
See comments in libusb_0.0.0.bb for details on the problem. In a
nutshell, set PREFERRED_VERSION_libusb = "0.0.0" for your distro to
ensure that libusb-compat and libusb1 is not stomped on by libusb.
| -rw-r--r-- | conf/distro/include/slugos.inc | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | packages/libusb/libusb_0.0.0.bb | 27 |
2 files changed, 33 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/conf/distro/include/slugos.inc b/conf/distro/include/slugos.inc index 40eef63ff8..d46dcf5380 100644 --- a/conf/distro/include/slugos.inc +++ b/conf/distro/include/slugos.inc @@ -243,5 +243,11 @@ PREFERRED_VERSION_m4-native ?= "1.4.8" PREFERRED_VERSION_pkgconfig ?= "0.23" PREFERRED_VERSION_pkgconfig-native ?= "0.23" +# Hack alert - selecting this version of libusb effectively selects +# the use of libusb1 and libusb-compat in the case that something +# still depends on libusb. This is required because otherwise +# libusb will overwrite libusb-compat in staging. +PREFERRED_VERSION_libusb ?= "0.0.0" + require conf/distro/include/sane-srcdates.inc require conf/distro/include/sane-srcrevs.inc diff --git a/packages/libusb/libusb_0.0.0.bb b/packages/libusb/libusb_0.0.0.bb new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..fe4595611d --- /dev/null +++ b/packages/libusb/libusb_0.0.0.bb @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +DESCRIPTION = "libusb is a library to provide userspace access to USB \ +devices. This version is a metapackage that pulls in libusb-compat, \ +the replacement for libusb." + +# This version of libusb will never be pulled in automagically. The +# intention is that a distro wishing to use libusb1 and libusb-compat +# will place the following in the appropriate conf file: +# +# PREFERRED_VERSION_libusb = "0.0.0" +# +# This essentially results in the replacement of libusb by libusb-compat, +# and resolves the issues of some packages depending on libusb, while +# other (newer) ones depend on libusb-compat. +# +# Note that using this version of libusb will break certain packages +# that cannot work with libusb-compat (gnuradio is said to be such a +# packages, as is dfu-util). Unfortunately other packages (such as bluez) +# require libusb-compat -- there's no good solution for this conflict +# at this time. The fundamental problem is that both libusb and +# libusb-compat stage to the same libs (/usr/lib/libusb.a, for example), +# so if you have built both, the last one staged wins. +# +# This "hack" seems to be the most flexible and least intrusive workaround. + +DEFAULT_PREFERENCE = "-1" + +DEPENDS = "libusb-compat" |