[sane-devel] Compiling and installing SANE

[m. allan noah]

The genesys backend is a part of sane-backends, which is certainly
included with ubuntu. Why do you need to compile anything?

allan

On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 2:37 PM, jerry <jerry at tr2.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>    I just got a little mobile scanner on Ebay ( a Visioneer strobe XP300 )
> and desire to use it with my Ubuntu systems.  I see that support for such
> things is in the "genesys" backend, which alas is not part of the standard
> Ubuntu installation.  So I had to leave the comfortable world of Ubuntu
> packages and go get the source.  I downloaded backends v1.0.24 and frontends
> 1.0.14.
>
>    The backend build informed me that the library had moved from /usr/lib to
> /usr/local/lib and advised to
> uninstall sane before installing the source build.  OK, I uninstalled SANE
> with the Synasptic package manager. The usual configure/make/make install
> sequence worked without incident.
>
>    Trying the same thing with the frontend, the compile failed with a couple
> of undefined constants:
> SANE_OPTION_IS_SETTABLE and SANE_CAP_ALWAYS_SETTABLE.  A web search told me
> that these defines had been removed at some point.  So I commented out both
> of them.
>
>    Scanimage complained that it couldn't find /usr/lib/libsane.so.1 - so I
> stuck in a symbolic link.  The real fix of course would
> be to get the source of scanimage....
>
>    I also have a Brother multifunction machine out on my network, and have
> used the Brother SANE driver to access it.  That scanner doesn't seem to be
> visible now.  The Brother stuff is not open source - they just give you
> their compiled libs.  I copied them from /usr/lib/sane to
> /usr/local/lib/sane, but no Brother action from scanimage.  Do I have to do
> something special to make SANE "notice" that there is a Brother driver in
> there?  Maybe an ldconfig command?
>
>                - Jerry Kaidor
>
>
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