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Id: 45638
Status: open
Priority: 0/
Queue: Device-USB
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Owner: cpan.wade [...] anomaly.org
Requestors: james2vegas [...] aim.com
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Severity: Important
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  Fri May 01 23:47:28 2009 james2vegas [...] aim.com - Ticket created
Subject: Makefile.PL assumes that shared libs are .so on !Win
In Makefile.PL searching for libusb, return 1 if defined $dir && ($^O =~ /win/i ? -e "$dir/libusb.lib" : -e " $dir/libusb.so") ; Not all unixen, never mind all not windows operating system have shared libs ending in .so, some have different extensions, others append the version number.
  Sat May 02 22:48:47 2009 cpan.wade [...] anomaly.org - Correspondence added
I am open to suggestions on better ways to recognize whether or not the libusb library is available before installation. This test was instituted to help specific people who were having trouble installing the module when the library did not exist. If you have a better test (or a patch), I would be happy to change the module to support it. At present, I only have access to Linux and Mac OSX. (Most of the Linux distributions that I have tried symlink the version numbered library to the .so name, so that test has been good enough. But I'm always open to improvements. Especially if you can test in an environment I don't have.) Thanks for the report. G. Wade
  Sat May 02 22:48:47 2009 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'
  Sat May 02 22:48:49 2009 cpan.wade [...] anomaly.org - Given to GWADEJ
  Wed Jun 22 08:02:43 2011 daxim [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
Use Devel::CheckLib instead of the custom detection.