[sane-devel] Re: [ANN] Plustek Backend update V0.45-1

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 12 January 2003 09:13, Jaeger, Gerhard wrote:
>Hi Gene,
>
>On Saturday, 11. January 2003 22:08, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Saturday 11 January 2003 10:05, Jaeger, Gerhard wrote:
>> Announcing a 45-1 release.
>>
>> I unpacked it over the old 45 in sane-backends-1.0.9, did a make
>> clean && make && make install, which apparently went well.
>>
>> Fireing up xsane from the icon, I had it do a preview, which ran
>> as far as the end of the forward travel of the carriage, at
>> which time it cleared Olivers logo from the preview window, and
>> the whole thing went away about 1 second later.  The carriage
>> went back home as it should have, but the lamp was left on.
>
>Quite a strange behaviour! I recommend to check the .conf file
> each time you make an update.
>
>> Running it from a shell, it did the same thing, and reported a
>> "segfault" to the shell window as it exited.
>
>I remember this behaviour a long time ago, but after a complete
>source code review and cleanup of my environment there are no
>problems left here!
>
>> The epson iscan-1.40 derived backend still works ok though.
>
>It should do so;-)
>
>> I'm going to do another make clean and get rid of the
>> config.cache etc stuffs and try it again, as I've re-arranged
>> the order in ld.so.conf a bit since that configure was done.
>>
>> Humm, that might have done something, in 2 restarts it hasn't
>> crashed yet.
>
>See above!
>
[snip the rest of my whining]

Got the email with the debug enabled file, and you should have the 
debug history by now.

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