[sane-devel] Using "scanimage" under Gentoo

[Olaf Meeuwissen]

Hi Rainer,

Dr Rainer Woitok writes:

> Olaf,
>
> On Tuesday, 2020-02-11 17:50:54 +0900, you wrote:
>
>> ...
>> > # Since I'm only specifying a single backend anyway,  why not include it
>> > # right into the binary rather than load it at start-up?
>>
>> Why not make that backend your libsane instance?
>
> And how to do that?   Or is that what happens automagically when I spec-
> ify neither  "--*able-dynamic"  nor "--*able-preload"  and only a single
> backend?

Just specifying a single backend still builds the `dll` backend.  That
is the usual backend to become your libsane instance.  So, no, it does
not happen automagically.

You could copy your libsane-$BACKEND.* to wherever libsane.* gets
installed, i.e. $libdir in ./configure terms.

Hope this helps,
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