[sane-devel] scanimage -L does not load my backend

[Jon Chambers]

Hi Tabor,

On Mon, 14 Aug 2006, Tabor Kelly wrote:
> Excellent. I had actually done that in my build directory, I guess 'make 
> install' will not overwrite existing .conf files (for good reason).

Out of interest: when you mention your build directory, do you mean the 
directory structure created when you unzip the package (or cvs checkout) 
or do you mean an alternative build directory such as one created by 
kdevelop?

If the latter, then I have also found that the conf files do not get 
installed.  The reason is that in backend/Makefile(.in) the source 
directory for the <backend>.conf is specified:

install-becfg:
 	@list="$(CONFIGS)"; for cfg in $$list; do \
 	  if test ! -r $(srcdir)/$${cfg}; then continue; fi; \
 	  if test -f $(DESTDIR)$(configdir)/$${cfg}; then \
 	    echo NOT overwriting $${cfg} in $(configdir)...; \
 	  else \
 	    echo installing $${cfg} in $(configdir)/$${cfg}...; \
 	    $(INSTALL_DATA) $(srcdir)/$${cfg} 
$(DESTDIR)$(configdir)/$${cfg} \
               || exit 1; \
 	  fi; \
 	done
If your working directory is elsewhere then your <backend>.conf files will 
have been generated in the current directory, not in $(srcdir).

This can be rectified by replacing  $(srcdir)/$${cfg} with $${cfg} in the 
above rule.

Unless someone can see a downside to doing this then I will make this 
modification and check it in?

cheers,
Jon

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