[sane-devel] libusb not available

[m. allan noah]

Do you have the header files for libusb installed? On other platforms
this would come from a package called libusb-dev or libusb-devel.

allan

On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 3:00 AM Olaf Meeuwissen
<paddy-hack at member.fsf.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Tom,
>
> Tom Buckler writes:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am wanting to install a new instance of sane on OSX:
> >
> > When I go to
> > $ ./configure BACKENDS="fujitsu"
> > I get
> > *** Warning: sane-backends will be built without USB support.  There may
> >
> > Yet libusb is installed via homebrew:
> > taws27 on TAWS27: /usr/local/lib$ ls -l libusb*
> > lrwxr-xr-x  1 taws27  admin  46 10 Feb 23:16 libusb-1.0.0.dylib -> ../Cellar/libusb/1.0.23/lib/libusb-1.0.0.dylib
> > lrwxr-xr-x  1 taws27  admin  40 10 Feb 23:16 libusb-1.0.a -> ../Cellar/libusb/1.0.23/lib/libusb-1.0.a
> > lrwxr-xr-x  1 taws27  admin  44 10 Feb 23:16 libusb-1.0.dylib -> ../Cellar/libusb/1.0.23/lib/libusb-1.0.dylib
> >
> > Thoughts appreciated,
>
> Please run `./configure --with-usb BACKENDS=fujitsu` and send the
> `config.log` file to the list.  You may want to compress the file
> as large messages end up in the moderator queue.
>
> That is not a problem per se, but it slows down communication.
>
> Even when compressed, the message may be too large.
>
> Alternatively, you could create an issue for this at
>
>   https://gitlab.com/sane-project/backends/issues/new
>
> I don't have access to any MacOS systems, so can only really debug
> this via that log file.
>
> That said, do you have `pkg-config` installed?  If not, that is most
> likely why libusb is not detected.
>
> Apologies but we don't see many MacOS folks around here so our build
> instructions may be lacking a bit for that OS.
>
> Hope this helps,
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