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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Failing to build sane-backends [bump]
Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 11:03:23
Message-Id: 200802160956.18837.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Failing to build sane-backends [bump] by Etaoin Shrdlu
1 On Friday 15 February 2008 18:51:49 Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
2 > On Friday 15 February 2008, Dan Farrell wrote:
3 > > On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 22:34:16 -0600
4 > >
5 > > Dan Farrell <dan@×××××××××.cx> wrote:
6 > > > I haven't been able to build sane-backends.
7 > > >
8 > > > >make[1]: *** No rule to make target `libsane-sane-epson2.la',
9 > > > > needed by `all'. Stop.
10 > > >
11 > > > any thoughts?
12 > >
13 > > Curses! My scanner won't scan a thing. Has anyone else been able to
14 > > successfully build media-gfx/sane-backends lately?
15 > >
16 > > I haven't found anything online...
17 >
18 > Did you read this:
19 >
20 > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=179765
21 >
22 > It seems the posters there had errors similar to yours, and the problem
23 > is apparently related to missing/unavailable external backends or
24 > something like that...one solution *seems* to use SANE_BACKENDS="" in
25 > make.conf, IIUC.
26
27 On the other hand, here's a note I've left in my make.conf to remind myself:
28
29 # This is required not to be present for sane-backends > 1.0.17:
30 #SANE_BACKENDS="epson"
31
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33 Rgds
34 Peter
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