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From: Etaoin Shrdlu <shrdlu@×××××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Failing to build sane-backends [bump]
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:37:26
Message-Id: 200802151951.49819.shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Failing to build sane-backends [bump] by Dan Farrell
1 On Friday 15 February 2008, Dan Farrell wrote:
2 > On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 22:34:16 -0600
3 >
4 > Dan Farrell <dan@×××××××××.cx> wrote:
5 > > I haven't been able to build sane-backends.
6 > >
7 > > >make[1]: *** No rule to make target `libsane-sane-epson2.la',
8 > > > needed by `all'. Stop.
9 > >
10 > > any thoughts?
11 >
12 > Curses! My scanner won't scan a thing. Has anyone else been able to
13 > successfully build media-gfx/sane-backends lately?
14 >
15 > I haven't found anything online...
16
17 Did you read this:
18
19 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=179765
20
21 It seems the posters there had errors similar to yours, and the problem
22 is apparently related to missing/unavailable external backends or
23 something like that...one solution *seems* to use SANE_BACKENDS="" in
24 make.conf, IIUC.
25
26 Hope this helps (I have never installed a scanner in Gentoo :-)).
27 --
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Re: [gentoo-user] Failing to build sane-backends [bump] Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××××.org>