[sane-devel] libusb not available

[Pim van Tend]

It works. I had no clue about the package pkg-config. One step closer now to a backend for the canoscan lide 70.

pimvantend
https://gitlab.com/pimvantend/canoscan-lide-70

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On Sat, 3/23/19, Olaf Meeuwissen <paddy-hack at member.fsf.org> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [sane-devel] libusb not available
 To: "Pim van Tend" <pimvantend at yahoo.com>
 Cc: sane-devel at alioth-lists.debian.net
 Date: Saturday, March 23, 2019, 12:08 PM
 
 Hi Pim,
 
 I'm doing a "educated guess" that
 you are on Ubuntu 18.04.  If that's
 wrong, all bets are off.
 
 Pim van Tend writes:
 
 > When I run sudo sane-findscanner -vv from
 the ubuntu-sane-package, I get:
 > ...
 > checking /dev/usbscanner15... failed to
 open (Invalid argument)
 
 #
 Curious device location.
 
 > found USB scanner (vendor=0x04a9 [Canon],
 product=0x2225 [CanoScan]) at libusb:001:003
 >   # Your USB scanner was (probably)
 detected. It may or may not be supported by
 >   # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the
 backend's manpage.
 >
 >   # Not checking for parallel port
 scanners.
 
 So that seems to
 have gone as expected.
 
 >
 When I run the same with a self-maked sane, I get:
 > ...
 > checking
 /dev/usbscanner15... failed to open (Invalid argument)
 > libusb not available
 
 No clue as to why that happens.  That library
 should be somewhere in
 your ld.so load
 path(s), based on the list of installed usb related
 packages you list a bit below.
 
 >   # No USB scanners
 found. If you expected something different, make sure
 that
 
 Yet this didn't
 quite go as expected.
 
 >
 In fact there are many libusb-packages installed:
 > libusb-0.1-4/bionic,now 2:0.1.12-31 amd64
 [installed]
 > libusb-1.0-0/bionic,now
 2:1.0.21-2 amd64 [installed]
 >
 libusb-1.0-0-dev/bionic,now 2:1.0.21-2 amd64 [installed]
 > libusb-1.0-doc/bionic,bionic,now
 2:1.0.21-2 all [installed]
 >
 libusb-dev/bionic,now 2:0.1.12-31 amd64 [installed]
 > libusbmuxd4/bionic,now
 1.1.0~git20171206.c724e70f-0.1 amd64 [installed]
 > python-libusb1/bionic,bionic,now 1.6.3-1
 all [installed]
 
 Development
 packages for libusb-1 and libusb (libusb-0) are present. 
 Good.
 
 > With libusb-dev
 removed, you do not get this far. Keeping or removing
 > libusb-1.0-0-dev makes no difference.
 
 Weird!  But ...
 
 > Part of the output op
 ./configure:
 > checking for SYSTEMD...
 no
 > checking for USB... no
 > checking for USB... no
 
 No?  Do you have pkg-config installed? 
 Doesn't look like it.
 
 > checking usb.h usability... yes
 > checking usb.h presence... yes
 > checking for usb.h... yes
 > checking for usb_interrupt_read in
 -lusb... yes
 
 So
 `./configure` thinks it detected a 10+ years old libusb (or
 Windows
 version of usb ;-/)
 
 > checking lusb0_usb.h
 usability... no
 > checking lusb0_usb.h
 presence... no
 > checking for
 lusb0_usb.h... no
 > checking
 IOKit/scsi/SCSITaskLib.h usability... no
 >
 > output from the
 makeing of sane-find-scanner:
 > for
 subdir in hal hotplug hotplug-ng udev; do \
 >   /bin/mkdir -p $subdir || exit 1; \
 >   done
 > make 
 all-am
 > make[1]: Entering directory
 '/home/zeeman/backends/tools'
 >
 /bin/bash ../libtool  --tag=CC   --mode=link gcc -Wall
 -Wextra -pedantic -g -O2   -o sane-find-scanner
 sane-find-scanner.o check-usb-chip.o ../sanei/libsanei.la
 ../lib/liblib.la -lusb -lieee1284 
 ../backend/sane_strstatus.lo
 > libtool:
 link: gcc -Wall -Wextra -pedantic -g -O2 -o
 sane-find-scanner sane-find-scanner.o check-usb-chip.o
 ../backend/.libs/sane_strstatus.o 
 ../sanei/.libs/libsanei.a ../lib/.libs/liblib.a -lusb
 -lieee1284
 > make[1]: Leaving directory
 '/home/zeeman/backends/tools'
 
 The sane-find-scanner utility links against
 libusb no problem.
 
 > Is
 the binary libusb somehow not detected in the
 configure-process?
 > Or something
 else?
 
 Most likely,
 you're missing pkg-config.  Try
 
   sudo apt install pkg-config
  
 ./configure
   make
 
 Hope this helps,
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