[sane-devel] Problem installing sane-backends

[Ralph Little]

Hi



On Wed, Sep 2, 2020, 09:26 David Niklas, <doark at mail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to install a version of sane-backends that supports my scanner,
> which would be 1.0.28 or newer. I'm getting an error when trying to
> run autogen.sh on any version of sane-backends (which is the first step
> in the INSTALL doc).
>
> # ./autogen.sh
> autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
> autoreconf: running: autopoint --force
> Copying file ABOUT-NLS
> Copying file config.rpath
> Copying file m4/codeset.m4
> Copying file m4/extern-inline.m4
> Copying file m4/fcntl-o.m4
> Copying file m4/gettext.m4
> Copying file m4/glibc2.m4
> Copying file m4/glibc21.m4
> Copying file m4/iconv.m4
> Copying file m4/intdiv0.m4
> Copying file m4/intl.m4
> Copying file m4/intldir.m4
> Copying file m4/intlmacosx.m4
> Copying file m4/intmax.m4
> Copying file m4/inttypes-pri.m4
> Copying file m4/inttypes_h.m4
> Copying file m4/lcmessage.m4
> Copying file m4/lib-ld.m4
> Copying file m4/lib-link.m4
> Copying file m4/lib-prefix.m4
> Copying file m4/lock.m4
> Copying file m4/longlong.m4
> Copying file m4/nls.m4
> Copying file m4/po.m4
> Copying file m4/printf-posix.m4
> Copying file m4/progtest.m4
> Copying file m4/size_max.m4
> Copying file m4/stdint_h.m4
> Copying file m4/threadlib.m4
> Copying file m4/uintmax_t.m4
> Copying file m4/visibility.m4
> Copying file m4/wchar_t.m4
> Copying file m4/wint_t.m4
> Copying file m4/xsize.m4
> Copying file po/Makefile.in.in
> Copying file po/Makevars.template
> Copying file po/Rules-quot
> Copying file po/boldquot.sed
> Copying file po/en at boldquot.header
> Copying file po/en at quot.header
> Copying file po/insert-header.sin
> Copying file po/quot.sed
> Copying file po/remove-potcdate.sin
> autoreconf: running: aclocal --force --warnings=all -I m4
> fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
> configure.ac:14: error: AC_INIT should be called with package and version
> arguments /usr/share/aclocal-1.15/init.m4:29: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE is
> expanded from... configure.ac:14: the top level
> autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
> aclocal: error: echo failed with exit status: 1
> autoreconf: aclocal failed with exit status: 1
> patching file ./ltmain.sh
> Hunk #1 FAILED at 9615.
> Hunk #2 FAILED at 10073.
> 2 out of 2 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file ./ltmain.sh.rej
> patch: **** Can't reopen file ./ltmain.sh : No such file or directory
> patching file ./po/Rules-quot
> fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
> configure.ac:14: error: AC_INIT should be called with package and version
> arguments /usr/share/aclocal-1.15/init.m4:29: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE is
> expanded from... configure.ac:14: the top level
> autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
> aclocal: error: echo failed with exit status: 1
> autoreconf: aclocal failed with exit status: 1
>
>
> # m4 --version
> m4 (GNU M4) 1.4.18
> # automake --version
> automake (GNU automake) 1.15
> # autoreconf --version
> autoreconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.69
> # aclocal --version
> aclocal (GNU automake) 1.15
> # patch --version
> GNU patch 2.7.5
>
> I'm on Devuan (Debian) Linux.
>
> If you have any ideas how to fix or work around this, please send them.
>
> Thanks,
> David
>

It might be that you are missing the autoconf-archive package.
Sometimes we see weird stuff like that in autoconf if that is missing.

Cheers
Ralph

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