[sane-devel] Epson Perfection 2400 on RH 9

[Henning Meier-Geinitz]

Hi,

On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 01:54:14AM +0100, Oliver Rauch wrote:
> I am not sure if the unique sonames have been taken out of 
> sane-backends-1.0.13

At least I haven't changed that intentionally. It may happen
accidently when updating libtool but ususally I take care to keep the
local changes.

> but I am pretty sure that you can not replace one sane-library by
> others if the sonames are different.

At least that was the case when I tested it last time. I wanted to ge
rid of the libtool quirk but didn't find a different solution.
 
> 1) normally /usr/local/lib/libsane.so is a copy or a link of libsane-dll.so
> 2) change the link or copy any backend, e.g. libsane-umax.so to /usr/local/lib
> 
> When everything is correct now the frontend only opens the sane-umax backend
> and not the sane-dll meta backend.

I can confirm that this works with sane-backends 1.0.13 and the latest
CVS.

Bye,
  Henning