[sane-devel] Thoughts on compilation

[jim.george@blueyonder.co.uk]

Oliver,

	fair enough I wasn't aware the conversation had already taken place,
although I suppose I should have guessed.

	However one comment you made worried me...compilation taking minutes
or seconds?  Mine ran for hours literaly 2-3 hours!  I have a Pentium III with
288MB.

	What can be going wrong?

Jim
On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Oliver Rauch wrote:

> Hello Jim,
>
> we already had a discussion about that in the list and decided not to
> implement such an option because this will produce several problems
> for several users and several FAQs in the sane-devel-list, eg:
> - user does not know wich backend to use and enables wrong backend
>   (lots of scanners are supported by different named backends)
> - user adds new scanner to the machine, the scanner does not work
>   because the backend is not enabled but user thinks sane is installed
>   and wonders why the scanner does not work
>
> The advantage is small if you disable not used backends (disk space can
> not be the reason, if this would be a reason than you will not be able
> to use this machine for scanning), compilation time is once some minutes
> or seconds for the user.
>
> Bye
> Oliver
>
>
> jim.george@blueyonder.co.uk wrote:
> >
> > Folks,
> >
> >         I'm just going through the process of compiling the sane CVS version
> > so as to be able to have gphoto2 support as well.
> >
> >         Having recently successfully completed the gphoto2 compilation (with
> > support) I've noticed that they allow you to specify the drivers that you
> > want support for thus dramatically cutting down the build time.  For example
> > ./configure --with-drivers=canon,jd11,directory.
> >
> >         Would it not be possible to have the same option in sane so that I
> > didn't have to compile all back-ends and man pages but could instead enter
> > ./configure --with-backends=mustek_pp,pnm,gphoto2 ?  Or have I missed the
> > existing option;)?
> >
> > Kind Regards,
> >
> > Jim
> >
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