Problems compiling rtl-sdr on debian

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lee jones slothpuck at gmail.com
Mon Aug 5 17:40:18 UTC 2013


>It would be interesting to see the output from a run that uses
>libusb-1.0.9 or better yet the code from libusb.git

Should I apt-get remove the libusb (libusbx) before I try this or
leave it installed?

>Hi, Which version of Debian are you using?
I'm using debian 7 but upgraded. Looking at /etc/debian_version it
reports "jessie/sid".

ljones

On 8/5/13, Peter Stuge <peter at stuge.se> wrote:
> lee jones wrote:
>> [   66.714466] rtl_tcp[3670]: segfault at 0 ip 00007f5d329389f2 sp
>> 00007fff71c8e780 error 6 in libusb-1.0.so.0.1.0[7f5d32930000+15000]
>> [   87.168292] rtl_tcp[3812]: segfault at 0 ip 00007f0d2fc609f2 sp
>> 00007f0d2e26cb50 error 6 in libusb-1.0.so.0.1.0[7f0d2fc58000+15000]
>> [  398.814077] rtl_tcp[8760]: segfault at 0 ip 00007f623a1a09f2 sp
>> 00007f62384acb40 error 6 in libusb-1.0.so.0.1.0[7f623a198000+15000]
>
> This shows a crash inside the library. That is caused either by a bug
> in the library or by a bug in the application.
>
>
>> Maybe this is a case of something not liking libusb at all? BTW here's
>> some info on the version of libusb I have installed on my system:
>>
>> # aptitude show libusb-1.0-0
>> Package: libusb-1.0-0
>> State: installed
>> Automatically installed: no
>> Multi-Arch: same
>> Version: 2:1.0.16-3
>> Priority: optional
>> Section: libs
>
> Actually this is not libusb at all. You have libusbx installed, it
> was changed to be the default in debian and several other
> distributions immediately after a Red Hat employee changed
> the default in Fedora and wrote a one-line blog post about it.
>
> The libusbx community doesn't value code quality highly so it's
> about equally likely that the problem is in libusbx as that it is in
> the application calling libusbx.
>
> It would be interesting to see the output from a run that uses
> libusb-1.0.9 or better yet the code from libusb.git, but that
> requires building it from source and running with the special-built
> library. You could look at https://libusb.org/wiki/debug for
> copypaste instructions.
>
>
> //Peter
>
>


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