[sane-devel] Compiling sane-backends on FC8 64bit

Chris chris at cenolan.com
Wed Jan 16 10:41:49 UTC 2008


Mattias Ellert wrote:
> ons 2008-01-16 klockan 09:22 +0000 skrev Chris:
>  
>> Thank you Mattias - we're getting somewhere now. Still got problems 
>> though:
>>
>> I installed libieee1284-devel x86_64 and then noticed that config.log 
>> was showing it couldn't find "libusb.so" so I have symlinked 
>> /usr/lib64/libusb.so -> /usr/lib64/libusb-0.1.so.4.4.4 and that error 
>> is now gone. I trust this was the correct thing to do?
>>     
>
> That link should be there if you have libusb-devel x86_64 installed. It
> is normally not a good idea to add symlinks by hand in the system
> directories - installing the right RPM is a better idea.
>
>   
You are quite right, that link should be there. I didn't have 
libusb-devel x86_64 installed, and trying to install it causes a 
conflict with the installed libusb-devel i386. This conflict is only 
resolved by "yum remove libusb-devel"  and then "yum install 
libusb-devel". (For information, the same thing happens when trying to 
install libieee1284-devel x86_64 when libieee1284-devel i386 is already 
installed, and the solution is the same: remove then reinstall.)

>> It now fails later on:
>>
>> /usr/lib/libieee1284.so: could not read symbols: File in wrong format
>> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>> make[1]: *** [libsane-hp3900.la] Error 1
>> make[1]: Leaving directory 
>> `/home/cnolan/Download/sane-backends-1.0.18/backend'
>> make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
>>
>> I've seen an error like this before, and I am *guessing* that it is 
>> now looking in /usr/lib/ when it should be using files from 
>> /usr/lib64/ - does this sound correct?
>>     
>
> Please include the full command that failed and not only the error
> message. If there is a -L/usr/lib somewhere, then it shouldn't be there.
>
> What is your LD_LIBRARY_PATH?
>   
Sorry, the full command was as follows:

gcc -shared  .libs/hp3900.o .libs/hp3900-s.o .libs/sane_strstatus.o 
../sanei/.libs/sanei_init_debug.o ../sanei/.libs/sanei_config.o 
../sanei/.libs/sanei_usb.o  -lpthread -lm -ljpeg -ltiff 
/usr/lib/libieee1284.so -ldl  -Wl,-soname -Wl,libsane.so.1 -o 
.libs/libsane-hp3900.so.1.0.18

As you can see, it is picking up /usr/lib/libieee1284.so instead of 
/usr/lib64/libieee1284.so

echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH returns blank (?)

I am going to retry the compile process now that I have the correct 
libusb-devel installed and see how we go.

(Mattias, my apologies for the resend, my original reply should have 
gone to the list and not just you)

Best
Chris



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