[sane-devel] Header files required to build backends

[m. allan noah]

Which header files do they need?

allan

On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 6:14 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
<glaubitz at physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> While trying to get the Canon P-215 document scanner work with SANE,
> I stumbled across a driver package directly offered by Canon [1].
>
> This driver packages contains two 32 bit packages for both .rpm-
> and .deb-based systems, no 64 bit packages, but at least a source
> tarball with a binary blob and some C code.
>
> Since my host system is running a 64 bit unstable, I thought I'd
> try rebuilding the package for 64 bit. While doing that, I found
> that the libsane-dev package in Debian currently contains solely
> two header files, namely "sane.h" and "saneopts.h" while the SANE
> upstream sources contain many more headers files from which the
> Canon driver also needs several of.
>
> Can anyone agree that the libsane-dev package in Debian should
> ship all header files such that external backends can be developed?
>
> If yes, I'd help Mark Buda, the current maintainer of the package
> in Debian, to get a fixed version of the package into unstable.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Adrian
>
>>
>> http://www.usa.canon.com/cusa/office/products/hardware/scanners/high_speed_document_scanners/imageformula_p_215_scan_tini_personal_document_scanner#DriversAndSoftware
>
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