[sane-devel] sane_strstatus

[Oliver Rauch]

Hi.

sane_strstatus is not a backend function, it is a function
that is linked to every library. You can not implement it
in your backend.

Bye
Oliver

Oliver Schwartz wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'd like to add some better error messages to the snapscan backend. If I
> understand the current SANE standard correctly, the backend can supply an
> error string for a given status code by an implementation of
> sane_strstatus().
> 
> However, trying to implement sane_strstatus myself results in a linker error
> as all backends are linked against sane_strstatus.c by default.
> 
> This leaves me with two questions:
> 
> 1) Is this the correct way to go, or am I missing something?
> 2) Is there an easy way to avoid the default linking against sane_strstatus.c
> (I'm not that much into autoconf etc.).
> 

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