# Re: Error compiling xsane 0.44

Lee Brown (lee@phys.ufl.edu)
Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:05:43 -0500 (EST)

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On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Oliver Rauch wrote:

> Richard Kuhlbars wrote:
>
> > Hi all!
> >
> > I'm getting the following error when I am compiling xsane on my SUSE 6.0
> > Linux machine:
> >
> > gcc -o xsane xsane-back-gtk.o xsane-front-gtk.o xsane-gamma.o
> > xsane-preview.o xsane-preferences.o xsane-setup.o xsane-save.o xsane-scan.o
> > xsane-icons.o xsane.o ../sanei/libsanei.a \
> > ../lib/liblib.a -lgimp ../intl/libintl.a -lpng -lsane -ldl -ltiff
> > -ljpeg -lm
> > /usr/i486-linux/bin/ld: cannot open -lpng: No such file or directory
> > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> > make[1]: *** [xsane] Error 1
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/xsane-0.44/frontend'
> > make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
>
> Hi Richard,
>
> try with
> ./configure --disable-png
>
> >
> >
> > Kinda stumped me. Everything is fine and uptodate (glib, gtk+, sane).
> > scanimage works as well.
> >
> > BTW, i couldn't find xscanimage on the sane 1.01 dist. Is xsane the
> > official replacement?
> >
>
> xscanimage is included in sane-1.01.
>
> There will be no "offical" sane frontend in the future and
> no graphical frontend will be included into sane any more.
> Then we will have a sane backend package and different
> frontend packages.
>
> I think that xsane gets the standard frontend for scanners in that case.
>
> Bye
> Oliver

I think the above is a great idea. Let gui developers do gui stuff and
SANE developers develope SANE stuff.

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