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

[Colin Walters]

Henning Meier-Geinitz <henning at meier-geinitz.de> writes:

> It would be helpful, if non-Debian-specific bugs would be sent to
> sane-devel or (if the sender isn't subscribed to the list) to me
> (henning at meier-geinitz.de). I sometimes check the bug tracking
> systems but that's not too easy with that much distributions and
> operating systems.

This is something the Debian maintainer should do, but he appears to
have been inactive for some time.  Hopefully if this situation
continues much longer someone else will take up maintenance (I
personally don't have a scanner, so I can't test anything).

> #114579 and #114632 should be fixed by the patch(es) in discussion.

Ok, good.

> #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

You can check out the latest versions from CVS there.  Keep in mind
this is something that you will have to do from time to time.

I have addressed this bug in the build process of the Debian package
by copying the files from the known current
/usr/share/misc/config.{sub,guess}.  (As quite a number of Debian
packages have to do).

> #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.

[...]

> 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?  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 at debian.org).

>> +/* FIXME: Is this really what we want?  I don't think other
>> +   architectures have parallel ports... */
>
> If this is true, it would make life much easier.

I really don't know.  Alpha hardware might have a parallel port, but
other than that I can't really think of any...