[sane-devel] Error running autoconf in sane-backends-1.0.19

[m. allan noah]

those files were not distributed in the sane source tarball. either
get them from cvs, or (even better) do your work in the cvs version of
sane.

allan

2008/10/3 Kisliakov, A. - Andrew - <Andrew.Kisliakov at canon-europe.com>:
> Hi all,
>
>
>
> I've just tried adding a new backend file and, as instructed in the
> backend-writing.txt file, I modified the file configure.in and ran autoconf.
> This has resulted in the following errors:
>
>
>
> /usr/bin/m4:acinclude.m4:606: cannot open `m4/libtool.m4': No such file or
> directory
>
> /usr/bin/m4:acinclude.m4:607: cannot open `m4/byteorder.m4': No such file or
> directory
>
> /usr/bin/m4:acinclude.m4:608: cannot open `m4/stdint.m4': No such file or
> directory
>
>
>
> So far I have tried doing this on up-to-date Fedora 9 and Ubuntu 8.04
> systems, with the same results.
>
>
>
> I suspect that a recent update to autoconf or related tools has removed the
> above files.
>
>
>
> Has anybody experienced similar problems and, if so, is there an easy
> workaround until such time as it can be fixed in a future SANE release?
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrew
>
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