Bug 438870

Summary:	net-print/hplip with dev-libs/libusb-1* does not work for older printers
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Ben <blc+gentoo>
Component:	[OLD] Printing	Assignee:	Daniel Pielmeier <billie>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	printing
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Ben 2012-10-18 22:37:07 UTC

It seems that older printers need to use libusb 0.1 and will fail with libusb 1.x.

This is the case for HP Officejet G85.  I was pulling my hairs out until I found this posting for another Linux...

https://answers.launchpad.net/hplip/+question/210089

I hacked my ebuild to change the --disable-libusb01_build to --enable-libusb01_build and got my old Officejet G85 working.

I suspect there should be a USE flag for this.

Comment 1 Daniel Pielmeier gentoo-dev

2012-10-19 16:58:12 UTC

+  19 Oct 2012; Daniel Pielmeier <billie@gentoo.org> hplip-3.12.10a.ebuild,
+  metadata.xml:
+  Add libusb0 use flag. This fixes bug #438870. Some old printers do not work
+  with libusb:1. Thanks to Ben for the report.