[sane-devel] Weird behavior in exagear.

[Jeff Sadowski]

root at raspberrypi:~:arm$ dpkg -c brscan2-0.2.5-1.i386.deb |grep lib|grep so
-rwxr-xr-x root/root     11444 2009-12-01 18:38 ./usr/lib/libbrcolm2.so.1.0.0
-rwxr-xr-x root/root     27912 2009-12-01 18:38 ./usr/lib/libbrscandec2.so.1.0.0
-rwxr-xr-x root/root     94516 2009-12-01 18:38
./usr/lib/sane/libsane-brother2.so.1.0.7
lrwxrwxrwx root/root         0 2009-12-01 18:38
./usr/lib/libbrcolm2.so -> /usr/lib/libbrcolm2.so.1
lrwxrwxrwx root/root         0 2009-12-01 18:38
./usr/lib/libbrscandec2.so.1 -> /usr/lib/libbrscandec2.so.1.0.0
lrwxrwxrwx root/root         0 2009-12-01 18:38
./usr/lib/libbrscandec2.so -> /usr/lib/libbrscandec2.so.1
lrwxrwxrwx root/root         0 2009-12-01 18:38
./usr/lib/libbrcolm2.so.1 -> /usr/lib/libbrcolm2.so.1.0.0
lrwxrwxrwx root/root         0 2009-12-01 18:38
./usr/lib/sane/libsane-brother2.so.1 ->
/usr/lib/sane/libsane-brother2.so.1.0.7
lrwxrwxrwx root/root         0 2009-12-01 18:38
./usr/lib/sane/libsane-brother2.so ->
/usr/lib/sane/libsane-brother2.so.1

so I will recompile to with libdir=/usr/lib and see if that works.

On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 5:28 AM, Olaf Meeuwissen
<paddy-hack at member.fsf.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Jeff Sadowski writes:
>
>> It seems to be wanting .la files when I have .so files so is there a
>> flag to support shared object files over .la?
>
> The dynamic loading should look for .la files first and failing to find
> those, look for .so files.  You don't need any flag for that (and AFAIK
> there isn't one).
>
>> On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 1:36 PM, Jeff Sadowski <jeff.sadowski at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I pulled the current git of sane-backend from
>>> https://anonscm.debian.org/git/sane/sane-backends.git
>>>
>>> I did
>>> ./configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu
>>> --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var  --
>>> make
>>> make install
>>>
>>> now when I run "scanimage -L" it can't see my scanner. Is there a flag
>>> I need to use other drivers than the ones it compiles as the brother
>>> printer driver is a binary package?
>
> The backends you built are installed below /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/sane/
> as libsane-$backendname.$extension, right?  Where is the backend of that
> brother binary package installed?
>
> If it's not in the same directory, you need to tell the loader to look
> in the directory where the brother binary package installed its
> backend.  Let's say that is /opt/brother/sane, then you'd have to run
>
>   LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/brother/sane scanimage -L
>
> Alternatively, you can make a symbolic link to the brother backend from
> /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/sane/.  Using the same example location
>
>   cd /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/sane
>   ln -s /opt/brother/sane/libsane-$backendname.$extension
>
> Hope this helps,
> --
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