[sane-devel] Weird behavior in exagear.

[Jeff Sadowski]

ah looks like I need the -l flag

On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 11:21 AM, Jeff Sadowski <jeff.sadowski at gmail.com> wrote:
> Progress. I am now able to scan jpeg files :-)
> And test out more of my phpsaneng program.
> My preview worked awesome. I was able to watch the image as it was
> being scanned.
>
> I redid git as recommended in INSTALL.linux
>
> apt remove sane sane-utils
> git clone git://git.debian.org/sane/sane-backends.git
> ./configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib --sysconfdir=/etc
> --localstatedir=/var  --enable-avahi
> make
> make install
>
> it is odd that -V reports as so
>
> root at raspberrypi:~/sane/sane-backends:x86$ scanimage -V
> scanimage (sane-backends) 1.0.27git; backend version 1.0.24
>
> Is this something I should be worried about?
> Where would it be getting 1.0.24
> I tried removing all sane files I could find and then
> make install from my git repo and I still get the same output.
>
>
> Now to try and get saned working
> saned use to at least connect to the port but now I get nothing
>
> root at raspberrypi:~/sane/sane-backends:x86$ saned -d128
> root at raspberrypi:~/sane/sane-backends:x86$
>
> root at raspberrypi:~/sane/sane-backends:x86$ saned -d128 -b 192.168.1.27
> root at raspberrypi:~/sane/sane-backends:x86$
>
> any suggestions on how to get it to report more?
> maybe a compile flag to get something from it?
>
> On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 8:19 AM, Jeff Sadowski <jeff.sadowski at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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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