[sane-devel] Problem installing sane-backends

[David Niklas]

Hello,

I'm trying to install a version of sane-backends that supports my scanner,
which would be 1.0.28 or newer. I'm getting an error when trying to
run autogen.sh on any version of sane-backends (which is the first step
in the INSTALL doc).

# ./autogen.sh
autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
autoreconf: running: autopoint --force
Copying file ABOUT-NLS
Copying file config.rpath
Copying file m4/codeset.m4
Copying file m4/extern-inline.m4
Copying file m4/fcntl-o.m4
Copying file m4/gettext.m4
Copying file m4/glibc2.m4
Copying file m4/glibc21.m4
Copying file m4/iconv.m4
Copying file m4/intdiv0.m4
Copying file m4/intl.m4
Copying file m4/intldir.m4
Copying file m4/intlmacosx.m4
Copying file m4/intmax.m4
Copying file m4/inttypes-pri.m4
Copying file m4/inttypes_h.m4
Copying file m4/lcmessage.m4
Copying file m4/lib-ld.m4
Copying file m4/lib-link.m4
Copying file m4/lib-prefix.m4
Copying file m4/lock.m4
Copying file m4/longlong.m4
Copying file m4/nls.m4
Copying file m4/po.m4
Copying file m4/printf-posix.m4
Copying file m4/progtest.m4
Copying file m4/size_max.m4
Copying file m4/stdint_h.m4
Copying file m4/threadlib.m4
Copying file m4/uintmax_t.m4
Copying file m4/visibility.m4
Copying file m4/wchar_t.m4
Copying file m4/wint_t.m4
Copying file m4/xsize.m4
Copying file po/Makefile.in.in
Copying file po/Makevars.template
Copying file po/Rules-quot
Copying file po/boldquot.sed
Copying file po/en at boldquot.header
Copying file po/en at quot.header
Copying file po/insert-header.sin
Copying file po/quot.sed
Copying file po/remove-potcdate.sin
autoreconf: running: aclocal --force --warnings=all -I m4
fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
configure.ac:14: error: AC_INIT should be called with package and version
arguments /usr/share/aclocal-1.15/init.m4:29: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE is
expanded from... configure.ac:14: the top level
autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
aclocal: error: echo failed with exit status: 1
autoreconf: aclocal failed with exit status: 1
patching file ./ltmain.sh
Hunk #1 FAILED at 9615.
Hunk #2 FAILED at 10073.
2 out of 2 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file ./ltmain.sh.rej
patch: **** Can't reopen file ./ltmain.sh : No such file or directory
patching file ./po/Rules-quot
fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
configure.ac:14: error: AC_INIT should be called with package and version
arguments /usr/share/aclocal-1.15/init.m4:29: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE is
expanded from... configure.ac:14: the top level
autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
aclocal: error: echo failed with exit status: 1
autoreconf: aclocal failed with exit status: 1


# m4 --version
m4 (GNU M4) 1.4.18
# automake --version
automake (GNU automake) 1.15
# autoreconf --version
autoreconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.69
# aclocal --version
aclocal (GNU automake) 1.15
# patch --version
GNU patch 2.7.5

I'm on Devuan (Debian) Linux.

If you have any ideas how to fix or work around this, please send them.

Thanks,
David