[sane-devel] Re: sane build on tru64 unix 5.1A

[Philip Goisman]

You've just shortened my workload, I believe.  I was setting this
up for a future test in conjunction with imagemagick;  but, based 
on your advice, I think I'll pass on the rest of the sane-backends, etc.
build.  Users are currently able to make movies, etc. from the imagemagick
built without scanimage support.  All other imagemagick requirements
built and installed fine.  sane-backends, etc. would have built fine too.
But, from your experience, it wouldn't have been useable.

Thanks again for the help and advice.

Regards,

	Philip

->Actually, I just realized that you may be running towards a dead end
->here. What is the hardware you want to use with SANE? What connection
->does it use? A while back, I tried to run SANE on Tru64 myself. I
->failed, here is why:

->- SCSI: officially (DEC/Compaq), SCSI scanners are not supported by
->  Tru64. SANE does have support for Tru64 support, but it's rather
->  fragile (at least 1.0.4 wasn't stable on Tru64 4.0E, IIRC).

->- USB and IEEE-1394 are unsupported by Tru64 anyway, as far as I know.
->- I don't think you can do anything useful with the Tru64 parallel
->  port apart from printing to a printer.

->- that leaves the only useable port the serial port, and I know that
->  that works under Tru64 pretty much the same way as under Linux.

->The way I do it at the moment is to have a Linux machine act as a scan
->server, using the SCSI bus to connect to a scanner. The Tru64 machines
->just use the net backend to connect to it. If you use a similar
->set-up, you will not need all the ieee1284, jpeg, and gphoto2 stuff
->under Tru64 anyway. And most of this should be trivial under Linux
->(which runs on the scan server).

->  Andras