On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 6:31 PM, Wander Lairson Costa
<wander.lair...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2012/7/16 Xiaofan Chen <xiaof...@gmail.com>:
>> Now that NetBSD and OpenBSD also have libusb-1.0/libusbx
>> support along with the legacy libusb-0.1 support. So I would like
>> to try out pyusb under NetBSD/OpenBSD as well.
>>
>> Under NetBSD 5.1.2 release, it seems to me that pyusb can not
>> find the backends. I think this is because the libusb-0.1 and
>> libusb-1.0 libraries are under /usr/pkg (pkgsrc system).
>>
> Does the compiler can find the path to the library without pkg-config?
> Because PyUSB uses ctypes find_library function, which will search in
> system configured paths... Is there some kind of ld.so.conf under
> NetBSD to confirm that?
>

I tried two methods configure the library paths but it still
does not work.
Ref: http://www.netbsd.org/docs/elf.html
Ref: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/install-post.html

But I think NetBSD support can be later.

localhost$ /sbin/ldconfig -m /usr/pkg/lib

localhost$ ldconfig -r
/var/run/ld.so.hints:
        search directories: /usr/pkg/lib

localhost$ nano /etc/ld.so.conf

localhost$ cat /etc/ld.so.conf
/usr/pkg/lib


localhost$ python2.7
Python 2.7.2 (default, Nov 13 2011, 10:50:29)
[GCC 4.1.3 20080704 prerelease (NetBSD nb2 20081120)] on netbsd5
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import usb.core
>>> import usb.util
>>> dev=usb.core.find(idVendor=0x04d8)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/pkg/lib/python2.7/site-packages/usb/core.py", line 856, in find
    raise ValueError('No backend available')
ValueError: No backend available
>>> exit()



-- 
Xiaofan

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