[sane-devel] OS/2 version of Sane

[Henning Meier-Geinitz]

Hi,

On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 01:14:47AM +0100, Franz Bakan wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Nov 2001 21:47:56 +0100, Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote:
> 
> >Just send the mustek stuff to me. If this doesn't break anything, I
> >will include it.
> 
> Sent.

Included in CVS now.

> >> 2. sanei/sanei_scsi.c
> >> 
> >>    I would like to make some changes here (OS/2-things only):
> >>    - remove semaphore() code because it is no longer necessary.
> >>       (This breaks backwards compatibility with aspirout.sys 1.01
> >>       aspirout.sys beta2 or later from Paul Ratcliffe is needed then.)
> >
> >As long as you don't touch non-OS/2-parts of the code, just do it. Or
> >send patches, if you don't have CVS-access yet.
> 
> Ok, I send the diffs to you.

Also committed to CVS. If something doesn't work, it's no problem to
revert it.

> >> 3. Allthough I get SANE built on OS/2 it's a little bit tricky.
> >>    OS/2 executables need the .exe extension to work.
> >>    So in theory things should improve if

Added to the TODO list.

> 2. I've been told, that there is a newer version of mkinstalldirs
>    which supports drive-letters (there is one included in a
>    autoconf 2.50 - package for OS/2) but I don't know if it
>    works on unix'es too. I also sent you this new one.

I have included it into CVS because it doesn't seem to cause trouble
with Linux.

Lots of changes, so please everyone: try compiling and running.

Bye,
  Henning