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On Wednesday, August 28, 2019, 4:43:48 a.m. PDT, Olaf Meeuwissen <paddy-hack@member.fsf.org> wrote:
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<div><br></div><div>> I'd suggest modifying m4/sane.m4 to use pkg-config or simply inline the<br><div dir="ltr">> PKG_CONFIG macro call directly in configure.ac, replacing AM_PATH_SANE.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">> Q: How good is your autofoo? Are you familiar with autoconf and<br></div><div dir="ltr">> friends? If not, I'll be around to help out, even make the changes<br></div><div dir="ltr">> needed, if needed, after looking at the fine print ;-)<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Not great TBH but I'm learning. <br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Looking into autoconf, it feels like I need a book of spells rather than documentation to properly configure it. :P</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">> Should we be able to rely on the existence of pkgconfig in the xsane<br></div><div dir="ltr">> build to locate and link with libsane?<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">> I'd say yes as sane-backends provides the necessary *.pc file.<br></div>> The sane-frontends also need to be cluebatted on current practice. It<br><div dir="ltr">> hasn't seen a release since 2005-09-18 :scream:<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>Perhaps after we have a functioning xsane build we could have a splurge on killing sane-config for good.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I find its existence confusing, especially in distros that have a sane-config manpage but no actual sane-config.<br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I'm happy to have a look at the sane frontend build with my new found autoconf foo.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Cheers</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Ralph<br></div></div>
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