The libusb package contains a library used by some applications for USB device access.
This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-6.5 platform.
Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/libusb/libusb-1.0.2.tar.bz2
Download (FTP): ftp://anduin.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/svn/l/libusb-1.0.2.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: dc8865eaff167aabe78e5799762b8067
Download size: 305 KB
Estimated disk space required: 4 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU
User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libusb
Install libusb by running the following commands:
./configure --prefix=/usr && make
If Doxygen is installed and you wish to build the API documentation, issue the following command:
make -C doc docs
This package does not come with a test suite.
Now, as the root user:
make install
If you built the API documentation, install it using the following
commands as the root user:
install -v -d -m755 /usr/share/doc/libusb-1.0.2/apidocs &&
install -v -m644 doc/html/* \
/usr/share/doc/libusb-1.0.2/apidocs
To access raw USB devices (those not treated as a disk by the mass-storage driver), appropriate support must be available in the kernel. Check your kernel configuration for Device Drivers ⇒ USB support ⇒ Support for Host-side USB. Select any USB hardware device drivers you may need on the same page.
To have raw USB devices set up properly, add the following udev rule.
cat > /etc/udev/rules.d/23-usb.rules << "EOF"
# Set group ownership for raw USB devices
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_device", GROUP="usb"
EOF
Add any users that need to access raw USB devices to the
usb group.
usermod -a -G usb <username>
Last updated on 2009-07-27 12:11:13 +0000