[sane-devel] make fails on debian unstable

[Norval Watson]

Hi Chris, allan,
I installed texlive-extra-utils from debian repository and make succeeds now.
My configure line was
./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var BACKENDS=pixma
(I have a Canon MP 970.)
I can run scanimage -V as root but have to sort out user permissions now.
Thanks for the tips,
Norv

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----- Original Message ----
From: Chris Bagwell <chris at cnpbagwell.com>
To: m. allan noah <kitno455 at gmail.com>
Cc: norv <norv2001 at yahoo.com.au>; sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org
Sent: Saturday, 17 January, 2009 1:29:02 PM
Subject: Re: [sane-devel] make fails on debian unstable

That is probably the problem now that you mention it... I just looked at 
tracker and their is a patch that seems incomplete.

I could probably get it working but I have an issue to resolve first.  
I'm running a newer version of autoconf (2.63) then current CVS files 
seem to be based on.  Any issues with me submitting configure updates 
from that version of autoconf?  See my other email as well on this.

Chris

On 1/16/2009 7:15 PM, m. allan noah wrote:
> there were some patches recently either on the list or in the bug
> tracker to make sane.ps optional if the user did not have latex
> installed.
>
> allan
>
> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 7:11 PM, Chris Bagwell<chris at cnpbagwell.com>  wrote:
>    
>> norv wrote:
>>      
>>> Hi and thanks for sane,
>>> I am trying to compile from cvs on debian sid and make fails with following
>>> lines
>>>
>>> .......>
>>> epkowa.desc: Warning: Backend `epkowa': 8 USB devices without :usbid
>>> brother.desc: Warning: Backend `brother': 1 USB devices without :usbid
>>> brother2.desc: Warning: Backend `brother2': 9 USB devices without :usbid
>>> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/norv/sane-backends/tools'
>>> making all in doc
>>> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/norv/sane-backends/doc'
>>> Generating index for sane.ps....
>>> make[1]: *** [sane.ind] Error 1
>>> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/norv/sane-backends/doc'
>>> make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
>>> norv at sid5600:~/sane-backends$
>>>
>>> I have libusb-dev installed and my configure argument is
>>>
>>> ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var
>>> BACKENDS=pixma
>>>
>>>
>>> I get the same error with and without the BACKENDS=pixma entry.
>>>
>>> What could I do?
>>> Norv
>>>
>>>        
>> Is it possible to tell me what time you took a snapshot of CVS?  I
>> committed some updates to Makefile.in's  at roughly the timestamp of
>> your email.
>>
>> I didn't touch anything related to your failure but I'll try to help out
>> to be sure its not my changes.  I've just done a cvs update and mine
>> compiles OK there:
>>
>> Generating index for sane.ps...
>> Generating sane.ps...
>>
>> Some things follow to help debug this.  Try running make in debug mode
>> to get better reason for failure (warning: volume of info is huge).
>>
>> cd doc
>> make -d
>>
>> also, the Makefile..in is hiding the output that may explain the failure
>> better.  Use an editor that will preserve *tabs* and modify the lines in
>> doc/Makefile.in file:
>>
>> sane.ind: sane.tex net.tex
>>         @echo Generating index for sane.ps...
>>         @touch sane.ind
>>         @$(LATEX) $(srcdir)/sane</dev/null>/dev/null&&  \
>>          $(MAKEINDEX) sane.idx 2>/dev/null
>>
>> to be (remove "@"'s and ">/dev/null"'s):
>>
>> sane.ind: sane.tex net.tex
>>         @echo Generating index for sane.ps...
>>         touch sane.ind
>>         $(LATEX) $(srcdir)/sane&&  \
>>          $(MAKEINDEX) sane.idx
>>
>> You can email complete output directly to me if it doesn't seem to make
>> sense.
>>
>> Chris
>> p.s.. it never hurts to run "cvs update" and "autoreconf" afterwards just
>> to see if it helps.
>>
>>
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