# Re: Sane and xscanimage

Hugo van der Kooij (hvdkooij@caiw.nl)
Sat, 2 Jan 1999 16:35:16 +0100 (CET)

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On Sat, 2 Jan 1999, Morris R. Bannerman wrote:

> Oliver Rauch wrote:
>
> > Morris R. Bannerman wrote:
> >
> > > I have tried repeatedly and cannot compile Sane 1.00 under caldera Open
> > > Linux 1.3 for a Umax scanner. I downloaded sane 0.74 and compiled it
> > > and installed it and it works, or at least if I run scanimage the
> > > scanner cycles and all sorts of characters fly past the terminal window.
> > >
> > > However the configure routine will not install xscanimage. GTK 1.0.5 is
> > > installed in /usr/X11R6/lib, but the routine does not seem to like it..
> > > I have attached the config.log to see if there are clues in there. The
> > > terminal window has the following mesage:
> > > [snip]
> > > checking for gtk-config... /usr/X11R6/bin/gtk-config
> > > checking for GTK - version >=0.99.13... no
> > > *** Could not run GTK test program, checking why...
> > > *** The test program failed to compile or link [snip]
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Try the following:
> >
> > login as root and call
> > ldconfig
> >
> > then login as normal user and call
> > configure
> > of sane.
> >
>
> Hi Oliver, Thanks for the replies.
> I have managed to install xscanimage by installing a runtime of glibc 2.0 and
> using the rpms version if Sane 0.74. As far as configuring Sane 1.00 goes the
> compile fails in the middle of the backend compile. I have tried editing out
> all of the backends in the /backend/makefile.in but it still seems to want to
> compile them. Is there another file I need to edit. It seems to be a faulty
> backend compi9le that causes the problem.

Run ./configure

Then edit Makefile (not Makefile.in!!!)

And you should get away clean.

Hugo.

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