[sane-devel] Using "scanimage" under Gentoo

r. a. schmied uwppp at flash.net
Sat Feb 8 21:22:42 GMT 2020


Dr Rainer Woitok wrote:
> Olaf,
> 
> it's been a while,  and I was busy solving more pressing problems.   Now
> I'm back again to tackle this scanning issue.
> 
> On Sunday, 2019-12-15 16:41:01 +0900, you wrote:
> 
> 
>>...
>>
>>>I know about the existence of environment variable "SANE_DEBUG_BJNP" but
>>>have no idea what value to set it to  to provide reasonable information.
>>>Could someone please guide me?
>>
>>Just set it to 127 if you don't know.  The developers should be able to
>>slice and dice the result as needed.
> 
> 
> First thing I did was digging out my old laptop, on which Windows Vista,
> Adobe Acrobat Distiller, and the original Canon driver is installed, and
> did a few scans from the ADF  just to make sure this is not a problem of
> an aging scanner.
> 
> Next I cloned the Git repository  in order  to be able  to freely change
> between various versions to find one which is working for me  by compil-
> ing "sane-backends" myself.   For a first test  I checked out  changeset
> 1942c5fd32a7 authored by  Olaf Meeuwissen <paddy-hack at member.fsf.org> at
> 2020-01-26 10:56:34 +0000.  However while running
> 
>    ./autogen.sh && ./configure
> 
> I got two warnings which I do not quite understand:
> 
>    configure: WARNING: Group uucp does not exist on this system.
>    configure: WARNING: Locking feature will be disabled.
> 
> The group does in fact exist:
> 
>    $ ls -l /etc/group /etc/gshadow
>    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 755 2020-01-14 10:03 /etc/group
>    -r--r----- 1 root root 622 2020-01-14 10:03 /etc/gshadow
>    $ grep uucp /etc/group /etc/gshadow
>    /etc/group:uucp:x:14:uucp
>    /etc/gshadow:uucp:::uucp
>    $
> 
> So what does that mean?   Do "configure" and "make"  want myself to be a
> memer of group "uucp" while I'm just compiling the stuff?   For the time
> being I'll go on with the compilation, will do
> 
>    $ SANE_DEBUG_BJNP=127 scanimage ...
> 
> and will report back how it went.
> 
> Sincerely,
>   Rainer
> 
> 

rainer and saners

on a solaris 10 sparc platform running sane-backends configure as
me (ras) results in the same warning even though group uucp does exist.

the problem is in the os security permissions or lack thereof, at least
on sol10, and i would expect on a security conscience linux as well.

i don't recall if running sane-backends configure is supposed to be
performed as root (i would hope and suspect not) but make install would be.

expert gnu autoconfigurers might be able to find a better way to
determine if group uucp does in fact exist and can be used by a sane
process instead of the current method:
    touch sanetest.file
    chgrp $LOCKPATH_GROUP sanetest.file 2>/dev/null || lasterror=$?


aloha

ras



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