[sane-devel] make fails on debian unstable

[m. allan noah]

On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 9:29 PM, Chris Bagwell <chris at cnpbagwell.com> wrote:
> 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.

sure, let it rip. but now you see why we keep all that stuff in cvs-
don't leave it up to me to generate it the day before a release and
hope it works for everyone :)

allan

>
> 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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