[sane-devel] CUPS dependency

[Simon Matter]

> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to pack sane for OpenWRT. As routers normally have low FS
> space,
> it is important to keep program sizes and dependencies to a minimum.
>
> While compiling sane-backends, I tried to look for usages of CUPS in every
> source file and I did not find. Without cups-devel, I get the same
> backends
> compiled. When compiled with cups, every sane .so gets linked to it.
>
> Is cups dependency still necessary?

At least for 1.0.24, cups seems required for the kodakaio backend.

>
> Also, I did not find a way to tell configure to ignore cups (except by
> patching it). Is there a better way?

Me too I didn't find a better way than patching.

Regards,
Simon