# Sane configuration?

Michael K. Johnson (johnsonm@redhat.com)
Sat, 02 Aug 1997 09:20:05 -0400

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Sane configuration has clearly changed between .5* and .62. It used to
be that libsane.so.0 was a symlink to whatever library you were going
to use; libsane-dll.so.0 if you wanted to dynamically load different
back ends, or directly to a backend if you wanted to use it. Now there
is a separate libsane.so.0.

The only way I seem to be able to get it to recognize my umax scanner
is to link libsane.so.0 to libsane-umax.so.0. Of course, not everything
works perfectly, but I'm at least able to scan that way. I have to
leave the real libsane.so.0 in order to get the gimp to query the
plugin correctly, but then no images are available, so I have to quit
and change the symlink, and then the gimp doesn't query the plugin
and I'm able to scan correctly.

I'm hesitant to release a sane RPM if I can't get it to work on my
scanner without hacking of this nature. David, how *should* this work?

Also, why was my scanner-discovery code from the command-line verson
not included in the backend? Some scanners can't be searched for safely,
but UMAX scanners can be searched for very safely.

michaelkjohnson

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