[sane-devel] libusb not available

Tom Buckler tom at buckler.ca
Tue Feb 11 16:34:56 GMT 2020


ix1500 Fujitsu


Tom Buckler | Buckler Microelectronics Inc.
17008 - 90 Avenue NW | Suite 272 | Edmonton | AB | Canada | T5T 1L6
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> On Feb 11, 2020, at 9:33 AM, m. allan noah <kitno455 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Which scanner are you using?
> 
> allan (fujitsu backend author)
> 
> On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 11:31 AM Tom Buckler <tom at buckler.ca> wrote:
>> 
>> Thanks Allan,
>> 
>> I'm not sure how to deal with that, as libusb-dev isn't a separate package from libusb as far as I know. But I seem to have gotten past that with pkg-config as per Olaf's suggestion previous.
>> 
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Tom
>> 
>> 
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>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Feb 11, 2020, at 6:41 AM, m. allan noah <kitno455 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 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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