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Re: Is libusb required?
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Greg Troxel |
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Re: Is libusb required? |
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Sat, 17 Jul 2021 08:55:53 -0400 |
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"Gary E. Miller" <gem@rellim.com> writes:
>> Which, to my mind, implies that I do not need it.
>
> Correct. BSD has no libusb, and works fine with gpsd. Only the
> Garmin driver ever uses libusb. libusb could be used for better device
> detection, but no one has submitted any ideas for that.
a nit here:
BSD systems have a very lean base, and NetBSD does not have libusb in
base (and very probably the others but I haven't checked recently).
However, libusb is available in pkgsrc and routinely used. So it
exists in the same way as it does on GNU/Linux where it is also (like
everything) within some sort of packaging system. The pkgsrc gpsd
package does depend on libusb.
I don't mean to question anything else you said. FWIW, the hacky script
I used to build does a full clean first, because I find scons caches way
too much state.
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