[sane-devel] Compiling Avision backend

[m. allan noah]

you are quite far off. you need to download the sane source code, and
follow the instructions inside. this has nothing whatsoever to do with
with /etc/sane.d, which is where the configuration file for a
completed install of sane are located.

allan

On 5/10/07, Robin Stewart <s48264 at bluebottle.com> wrote:
>
>  Following my request for help below I posted a similar message on the
> Ubuntu forum. I am told that I should see a file called configure. I can not
> see it in
>
>  robin at robin-desktop:/etc/sane.d
>
>  Where should I find the file, if it is not in sane.d?
>
>  Robin
>
>
>  The above comments are in response to Robin Stewart's email of 09/05/07
> 21:39 as quoted below:
>  It seems that in order to have my strobe xp 450 working I will have to
> compile the avision backend with the latest files as suggested by Rene.
>
>  I have downloaded into sane.d avision.c and avision.h (they were not there
> before)
>
>  the next stage is to run ./configure --sysconfdir=/etc --prefix=/usr
>
>  When I put this into my terminal it reports that
>
>  bash: ./configure: No such file or directory
>
>  I would appreciate some advice as to how to get ./configure to work within
> Ubuntu.
>
>  Robin
>
>
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