[sane-devel] SANE source compilation problems

[m. allan noah]

you dont need to compile sane-frontends from devel source. use the
last release, or skip it entirely. scanimage can do most things
scanadf can, and the other programs in sane-frontends are not actively
developed.

allan

On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 4:25 PM, Ilmārs Poikāns <ilmars at delibero.lv> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I downloaded source from git repositories (sane-backends and sane-frontends)
> and tired to compile them.
>
> I have Ubuntu 9.10, needed dev library packages were there.
>
> sane-backends configure, make, make install was fine.
> sane-frontends configure failed.
>
> I traced problem down to /user/local/bin/sane-config having line:
> LIBS=" -ldl -lv4l1   -lm -ltiff -ljpeg  -lgphoto2 -lgphoto2_port -lexif -lm
> -lusb       -lusb  @REGMGR_LIBS@"
>
> When I deleted @REGMGR_LIBS@ from that line, then sane-frontends configure
> run successfully. I didn't care about graphical frontends, so configure
> disabled GUI. Previously gcc tried to find that file and failed to compile
> some tests.
>
> So, my first question - Is it normal to have something like @REGMGR_LIBS@
> unreplaced with some text after sane-backends make install?
>
> Then I got to second problem while making sane-frontends - compiling
> scanadf.c failed, make reported error:
> scanadf.c:995: error: ‘SANE_STATUS_WARMING_UP’ undeclared (first use in this
> function)
>
> Source for SANE_STATUS_WARNING_UP undeclared problem was in
> /usr/local/include/sane/sane.h (installed by make install in sane-backends)
> on line 74. Missing define is deactivated with #if 0 line above. When I
> changed "#if 0" to "#if 1" and enabled following two #define declarations,
> sane-frontends make was successful finally.
>
> Is it supposed to be so, that user needs to manually change something in
> installed files to make sane successfully? Or I found a feature or bug?
>
> Best regards,
> Ilmars Poikans
>
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