[sane-devel] How best to distribute the m4 directory?

[Olaf Meeuwissen]

"m. allan noah" <kitno455 at gmail.com> writes:

> [switching sane build system to autotools]
> You (and others on this list) have more experience with these tools
> than I, so I am willing to defer to your judgement. But watch out for
> the sane-specific copy of libtool. We have some hacks in there to make
> each sane backend's .so export symbols so that it can be linked
> directly.

The iscan sources include these changes as a patch to ltmain.sh and
uses a little bootstrap script to apply it.

I'd be happy to help out with converting the SANE build system to an
autotool based one.  FWIW, iscan started out with SANE's build system
and I've converted it to use autotools a few years ago.

Hope this helps,
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