[sane-devel] libsane.so and HP scanjet 3770

[jouthuis at dds.nl]

Goodday,

I recently started using HP scanjet 3770. Picked up the proprietary driver from
Daniel Tartavel's website. This driver uses an adapted libsane.so.1.0.13.
Starting up xsane with a more recent libsane.so results in:

xsane: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/sane/libsane-hp3770.so.1.0.13: undefined
symbol: sanei_usb_init

I wonder if it wouldn't be possible to incorporate the following permanently
into the standard sane-code for backends (picked up from Daniel's README file):

#	[add "sanei_usb.lo" to the "EXTRA" line in backend/Makefile.in:
#
#diff -e backend/Makefile.in ../sane-backends-1.0.13.hp/backend/Makefile.in
#71c]

EXTRA = sane_strstatus.lo ../sanei/sanei_init_debug.lo ../sanei/sanei_config.lo
../sanei/sanei_usb.lo

Otherwise all hp3770 users will be stuck with 1.0.13 forever, or will have to
adapt and compile new sane-releases themselves time and again, which is kind of
unpractical when one's using .deb's or .rpm's.

Tia for your reply.

Greetings.
Jan Outhuis