[sane-devel] Loading development backends

[Olaf Meeuwissen]

Hi Mike,

Mike Wild writes:

> Hi all,
>
> Running make install places my modified hp3500 backend in 
> /usr/local/lib/sane/libsane-hp3500.*. This works fine with scanimage, 
> which looks like it is compiled at the same time as the backends, 
> however XSane appears to be using a different sent of backends I cannot 
> locate.
>
> How can I get XSane (installed from apt) to use my custom hp3500 
> backend instead?

IIRC, this should do the trick:

  LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib/sane xsane

Hope this helps,
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