[sane-devel] USB scanning broken afte re-install

[Sergey Vlasov]

On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 18:58:22 +0100
Henning Meier-Geinitz <henning at meier-geinitz.de> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 05:48:22PM +0000, Nick Lindsell wrote:
> > I've just done a fresh install.
> > In /usr/local/lib there is a broken link "libsane.a -> sane/libsane-dll.a"
> > There is no such file "/usr/local/lib/sane/libsane-dll.a"
> > 
> > 
> > What is /usr/local/lib/libsane.a supposed to be?
> 
> That's a link to a static SANE library, usually the DLL library. The
> default build system doesn't link and install static libraries, so
> this link is from an older installation. Either remove it or build the
> static libaries: configure --enable-static.

Looking at backend/Makefile.in, seems that the libsane.a link is made
unconditionally, even if the static libraries are not built - in which
case it will be broken.