[sane-devel] make on FreeBSD 4.4 exits with error in backend Makefile

[Henning Meier-Geinitz]

Hi,

On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 08:08:00PM -0500, Anders Sensenig wrote:
> I'm trying to compile sane-1.0.6 on FreeBSD 4.4.  I get the error 
> "Error expanding embedded variable" when running make in the 
> backend dir.  The error _appears_ to be on line starting with 
> "libsane-%.la:".  Any help appreciated.

I had no problems compiling SANE (pre) 1.0.6 about 10 days ago on
FreeBSD 4.4. Maybe you didn't use gmake (GNU make)? (for bash:
MAKE=gmake ./configure; gmake; gmake install).

Bye,
  Henning