# Re: pre-release available for testing

Scott J. Kramer (sjk@lux.com)
Fri, 30 Oct 1998 23:10:07 -1000

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On Fri, 30-Oct-1998 @ 23:42, David Mosberger-Tang wrote:
> Subject: pre-release available for testing

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Hi David,

Just grabbed sane-pre0.75.tar.gz and diff'd it with sane-0.74, and...

I'd like to suggest upgrading to at least version 1.2 of libtool --
that was what was necessary for me to build sane-0.74 for Solaris
2.5.1 (gcc-2.8.1). Otherwise, the `make' produces core dumps when
attempting to create executables under frontend/.libs:

...
making all in frontend
make[1]: Entering directory `/opt/src/local/sane-0.74/frontend'
gcc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../include -I../include -I/usr/local/include -D_GNU_SOURCE -DPATH_SANE_CONFIG_DIR=/opt/local/etc/sane.d -DPATH_SANE_DATA_DIR=/opt/local/share -DV_MAJOR=0 -DV_MINOR=74 -O2 -Wall -I/opt/X11/lib/glib/include -I/opt/X11/include -I/opt/X11R6.3/include scanimage.c
mkdir .libs
gcc -s -o .libs/scanimage scanimage.o -R/opt/local/lib ../backend/.libs/libsane.so ../lib/liblib.a -ldl -lsocket -lnsl -lintl -lm
creating scanimage
Segmentation Fault - core dumped
gcc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../include -I../include -I/usr/local/include -D_GNU_SOURCE -DPATH_SANE_CONFIG_DIR=/opt/local/etc/sane.d -DPATH_SANE_DATA_DIR=/opt/local/share -DV_MAJOR=0 -DV_MINOR=74 -O2 -Wall -I/opt/X11/lib/glib/include -I/opt/X11/include -I/opt/X11R6.3/include xscanimage.c
...

That doesn't show the call to the libtool script, but the "creating
scanimage" message is from it. I tracked the trouble to some sort
of printf command argument overflow bug; I didn't save the details,
sorry, and I'm too lazy/busy to go thru the drill that I did last
month to isolate it. :-) To my knowledge, no patch exists.

I grabbed ltconfig and ltmain.sh files from the gtk+1.0.5 distribution
and those generated a working libtools script. The difference that
matters is the gtk+ ltconfig does tests for a working echo command
before the test for printf.

I haven't tried compiled sane-pre0.75 yet, but I'm certain it will
fail unless I do the libtool upgrade as I did for sane-0.74. I'll
let you know if there are any other Solaris-type troubles with 0.75,
too.

Thanx much to all SANE authors for writing/providing this cool
software package. I've converted an old Sun IPX into a "scanner
server" using saned and it works just dandy thru gimp+xscanimage
running on an SS5. Sometimes the xscanimage plugin crashes, but
that's only a minor nuisance 'cuz I'm not doing anything serious
enough to care... I'd rather that than be forced to use a PC to
run the scanner. :-)

Aloha,

-sjk

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