[sane-devel] Problem compiling scanbd (unkown type u_int8_t)

[Ruediger Meier]

On Saturday 04 February 2012, Alexander Tomisch wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've tried to compile scanbd on Arch Linux ...
>
>
> USE_SCANBUTTOND=yes make -e clean all
>
>
> ... and got the following error:
>
> [...]
>
> cc -Wall -Wextra -std=c99 -g -DLinux -I../include -Dsyslog=slog
> -DLOG_INFO=SLOG_INFO -DLOG_WARNING=SLOG_WARN
> -DCFG_DIR=/usr/local/etc/scanbd/scanbuttond/backends -fPIC -shared -o
> mustek.so mustek.c
> In file included from ../include/scanbuttond/libusbi.h:22:0,
>                   from mustek.c:27:
> /usr/include/usb.h:81:2: Fehler: unbekannter Typname: »u_int8_t«
>
> [...]
>
> It seems that scanbd is compiling well but the old scanbuttond not -
> and I did not found any useful information about this error.
>
>
> Any hints?

In mustek.c add
#include <sys/types.h>
before including libusbi.h

Maybe the libusb people should include that directly within usb.h.
You could report the issue there.

cu,
Rudi