[sane-devel] Re: sane-1.0.6 make-error concerning umax_pp - ongoing 8-(

[Henning Meier-Geinitz]

Hi,

On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 03:59:59PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
[parport problems]
> > #114579 and #114632 should be fixed by the patch(es) in discussion.
> 
> Ok, good.

That's in CVS now.

> > #114686: (config.guess and config.sub are too old). I'm getting
> > errors when trying to access ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/config/ . Can
> > I just copy the files from libtool 1.4.2 or must libtool itsself be
> > updated?  In the latter case, this will probably be non-trivial
> > because of some local changes in libtool to get it running on some
> > platforms at all.
> 
> The canonical repository for config.{sub,guess} is the "config"
> module on Savannah; see:
> 
> http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config

Thanks. Updated in CVS.

> > #118079: (sane-config --libs doesn't return -ldl on ia64).
> > Is this ia64-specific? I don't understand most of the lib/dll mechanism.
> > Why is -lnsl -lm  -ljpeg returned by sane-config (BACKEND_LIBS) but
> > not -ldl (DL_LIB)? Bug or intentional?
> 
> This one I am not sure about.

I have changed it to also use @DL_LIB@. We will see if this breaks any
platform.

> [...]
> 
> > Linking on Linux still works. The missing -ldl doesn't seem to occur
> > because gtk-config already returns -ldl. But if this fails ...
> 
> By Linux do you mean i386?

Yes. Sorry, I'm sometimes not only Linux- but also i386-centric :-]

> Because this problem apparently only
> occurs on ia64.  If you do not have access to an ia64 box, the Debian
> project can probably provide one (you will have to ask
> debian-admin@debian.org).

I will ask.

Thanks,
  Henning