[sane-devel] libusb not available

Olaf Meeuwissen paddy-hack at member.fsf.org
Wed Feb 12 11:08:48 GMT 2020


Hi Tom,

Tom Buckler writes:

> [...]
>> On Feb 11, 2020, at 1:00 AM, Olaf Meeuwissen <paddy-hack at member.fsf.org> wrote:
>> [...]
>> 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.
>
> Well that at least let me know that there was a problem with USB:
> 	"configure: error: USB support requested but required libraries not found."
> But that's fixed with pkg-config (below)
>
>> [...]
>> I don't have access to any MacOS systems, so can only really debug
>> this via that log file.
>
> I could fix that.
>
>> That said, do you have `pkg-config` installed?  If not, that is most
>> likely why libusb is not detected.
>
> Didn't know about that one ― it WORKED! THANKS!

Good.

>> Apologies but we don't see many MacOS folks around here
>
> I'm used to that ;)
>
>> so our build
>> instructions may be lacking a bit for that OS.
>
> um, are there _any_ OSX specific instructions? If so I've totally missed them all these years that I've been relying on SANE :)

There is a (very badly dated) README.darwin.
It won't help you one bit :-(

> So I'm past ./configure,  Now I get the following error from MAKE:
>
> ~/Downloads/sane-backends-1.0.29-116-g336cbdfd$ sudo make
> 	mv -f $depbase.Tpo $depbase.Plo
> libtool: compile:  gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../include/sane -D_REENTRANT -DPATH_SANE_CONFIG_DIR=/usr/local/etc/sane.d -DPATH_SANE_DATA_DIR=/usr/local/share -DPATH_SANE_LOCK_DIR=/usr/local/var/lock/sane -DV_MAJOR=1 -DV_MINOR=0 -I. -I. -I../include -I../include -I/usr/local/Cellar/libusb/1.0.23/include/libusb-1.0 -I/usr/include/libxml2 -Wall -Wextra -pedantic -g -O2 -MT sanei_usb.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/sanei_usb.Tpo -c sanei_usb.c  -fno-common -DPIC -o .libs/sanei_usb.o
> sanei_usb.c:67:10: fatal error: 'libxml/tree.h' file not found
> #include <libxml/tree.h>
>          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 1 error generated.
> make[1]: *** [sanei_usb.lo] Error 1
> make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
>
> This is specific to 1.0.29, as I tried 1.0.28 and it continues to install OK, (but I have to add my scanner to fujitsu.conf.) I'd still like to try to fix this in 1.0.29.

Looks like you have libxml2 installed, per `-I/usr/include/libxml2` in
the compile command.

What do you have in /usr/include/libxml2, recursively?
That libxml/tree.h file ought to be there.

Hope this helps,
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