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Subject: Re: Issues with libdc1394 and libftdi on Ubuntu 10.04

From: Thomas Jarosch <thomas.jarosch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: libftdi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:29:53 +0200
Hello Ilya,

On Monday, 26. July 2010 15:25:19 Ilya Ganelin wrote:
>  I have noticed when running 'ldd' to determine library dependencies for
>  the libraries that in Ubuntu 10.04, libdc1394 includes the library
> libusb1.0, however, in 9.1,
>  it does not include any version of libusb.
>  Libftdi uses libusb0.1. I have read on the website for libusb1.0 that
>  there should not be any compatibility issues with libusb1.0 and
> libusb0.1 but since the error is
>  in the register_platform()  function which is being called from
> usb_init, I am skeptical of this
>  claim.
> 
>  I feel that if libftdi were to be updated to usb libusb1.0 that this
> could resolve the issue. I am wondering if you have seen such an issue
> before or if you can
> suggest anything to resolve it.

IMHO you are right. Try the libftdi-1 version which uses libusb 1.x,
you can get the git tree via

"git clone git://developer.intra2net.com/libftdi-1.0"

Note: libftdi-1 won't run in parallel with libftdi 0.x
if you install it in /usr/lib or /usr/lib64.
This will be resolved soon.

Cheers,
Thomas

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