<div dir="ltr"><div>Olaf and everyone -- thanks for your help.</div><div><br></div><div>re: "*Our* source tarballs contain everything needed to build starting with a</div><br> ./configure"<div><br></div><div>I'm not sure if I understand where to find "our" tarballs. I haveused the ones from gitlab shown in the image at [1]</div><div><br></div><div>In these archives, there is no command file named "configure" (as above) but the README calls for starting with ./autogen.sh. When I do that the process appears to be in an infinite loop terminated by a segmentation fault. The complete output is at [2] below. I suspect that the significant issue is highlighted in red below, but if so, I don;t know what I should do.</div><div><br></div><div>This is pretty much a stock Ubuntu 18.04 system. </div><div><div><br></div><div>[1] selected tarballs</div><div><br></div><div><div><img src="cid:ii_kenb9x1b0" alt="image.png" style="margin-right: 25px;"><br></div></div><div><br></div><b>[2] command output from ./autoconfigure</b></div><div><br></div><div><font face="monospace">autoreconf: Entering directory `.'<br>autoreconf: running: autopoint --force<br>Copying file po/Rules-quot<br>autoreconf: running: aclocal --force --warnings=all -I m4<br><font color="#ff0000">fatal: not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git<br><a href="http://configure.ac:14">configure.ac:14</a>: error: AC_INIT should be called with package and version arguments</font><br>/usr/share/aclocal-1.15/init.m4:29: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE is expanded from...<br><a href="http://configure.ac:14">configure.ac:14</a>: the top level<br>autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1<br>aclocal: error: echo failed with exit status: 1<br>autoreconf: aclocal failed with exit status: 1<br>patching file ./ltmain.sh<br>Hunk #1 FAILED at 9708.<br>Hunk #2 FAILED at 10166.<br>2 out of 2 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file ./ltmain.sh.rej<br> <font color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">(*** The above line repeated about 12000 times ***)</font><br>patch: **** Can't create file ./ltmain.sh.orig : Too many open files<br>patch: **** Can't create file ./ltmain.sh.orig./autogen.sh: line 6: 13306 Segmentation fault (core dumped) patch "$srcdir/ltmain.sh" "$srcdir/ltmain.sh.patch"<br>patching file ./po/Rules-quot<br>fatal: not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git<br><a href="http://configure.ac:14">configure.ac:14</a>: error: AC_INIT should be called with package and version arguments<br>/usr/share/aclocal-1.15/init.m4:29: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE is expanded from...<br><a href="http://configure.ac:14">configure.ac:14</a>: the top level<br>autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1<br>aclocal: error: echo failed with exit status: 1<br>autoreconf: aclocal failed with exit status: 1</font><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Sep 3, 2020 at 4:02 AM Olaf Meeuwissen <<a href="mailto:paddy-hack@member.fsf.org">paddy-hack@member.fsf.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi Adam,<br>
<br>
Adam Richter writes:<br>
<br>
> Hi, Wes ald Ralph.<br>
><br>
> I am sorry for not noticing this thread earlier. This is a known bug<br>
> with the .tar.gz source releases before 1.0.31 and is in the bug<br>
> tracking system at<br>
> <a href="https://gitlab.com/sane-project/backends/-/issues/248" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://gitlab.com/sane-project/backends/-/issues/248</a> . 1.0.31 should<br>
> build for you.<br>
<br>
Thanks for trying to help! But I must correct you a little bit. *Our*<br>
source tarballs contain everything needed to build starting with a<br>
<br>
./configure<br>
<br>
The problem is that GitLab automatically adds *their* source tarballs<br>
that only include what we keep in the git repository. I've submitted<br>
an [issue][1] with GitLab to get this addressed.<br>
<br>
[1]: <a href="https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/232074" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/232074</a><br>
<br>
Similarly, people also seem to use the download functionality in the web<br>
interface to get GitLab created source tarballs. These are just a top<br>
skim of the repository at a given point in the project's history. They<br>
are the same as you would get from a<br>
<br>
git archive<br>
<br>
> The issue is that the releases in a certain range of versions were<br>
> made from git snapshots which did not include ./configure and related<br>
> files that are normally built for a release, and the version of<br>
> <a href="http://configure.ac" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">configure.ac</a> invokes "git describe --dirty" to figure out the version<br>
> number, which requires a .git directory tree, which is not included in<br>
> the .tar.gz source release.<br>
<br>
That'd be the GitLab provided "source archives".<br>
Our [releases][2] include good source archives as long as you download<br>
the sane-backends-$version.tar.gz from the Other section in the Assets.<br>
<br>
[2]: <a href="https://gitlab.com/sane-project/backends/-/releases" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://gitlab.com/sane-project/backends/-/releases</a><br>
<br>
> Any of the following three solutions should work:<br>
> (a) edit autogen.sh to replace "[git describe --ditry]" with the<br>
> version number you want,<br>
> (b) build 1.0.31 instead,<br>
> (c) build from git clone (you can check out the versions using version<br>
> branch names, which you can see with "git branch -a").<br>
><br>
> I encourage you to report back if any of the above three options do<br>
> not work for you or if all are inadequate for your situation.<br>
<br>
:+1:<br>
<br>
> Adam<br>
<br>
Hope this helps,<br>
--<br>
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