The libusb package contains a library used by some applications for USB device access.
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This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS 13.1 platform.
Download (HTTP): https://github.com/libusb/libusb/releases/download/v1.0.30/libusb-1.0.30.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: b0b0bacc2c6919515db8e863f0517db8
Download size: 644 KB
Estimated disk space required: 7.8 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU
Doxygen-1.18.0 (for generating documentation) and umockdev-0.19.8 (for the test suite)
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:
Device Drivers ---> [*] USB support ---> [USB_SUPPORT] <*/M> Support for Host-side USB [USB] [*] PCI based USB host interface [USB_PCI] # These are most common USB controller drivers for PC-like systems. # For modern systems often [USB_XHCI_HCD] is the only one needed # even if the system has USB 2.0 ports: < /*/M> xHCI HCD (USB 3.0) support [USB_XHCI_HCD] < /*/M> EHCI HCD (USB 2.0) support [USB_EHCI_HCD] < /*/M> OHCI HCD (USB 1.1) support [USB_OHCI_HCD]
For more details on setting up USB devices, see the section called “USB Device Issues”.
Install libusb by running the following commands:
./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static && make
If Doxygen is installed and you wish to build the API documentation, issue the following commands:
pushd doc && doxygen -u doxygen.cfg && make docs && popd
If you wish to run the tests, ensure that you have the umockdev-0.19.8 package installed and then
add the --enable-tests-build switch to
configure. After doing this, issue make check to run the tests.
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-1.0.30/apidocs &&
install -v -m644 doc/api-1.0/* \
/usr/share/doc/libusb-1.0.30/apidocs