Re: Problems with sane-0.71 and gimp 0.99.18

Rogier Wolff (R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl)
Sun, 8 Mar 1998 17:49:40 +0100 (MET)

David Mosberger-Tang wrote:
>
> >>>>> On 28 Feb 1998 01:24:38 -0800, Kevin Dalley <kevind@rahul.net> said:
>
> Kevin> When I installed a newly compiled sane-0.71 and started gimp,
> Kevin> I received the message below and gimp could not access
> Kevin> xscanimage. However, I could still run xscanimage directly
> Kevin> and access my scanner, which is a UMAX 1200S, by the way.
>
> Kevin> When I went back to sane-0.70, gimp could access sane again.
> Kevin> Does anyone know the solution to this problem.
>
> Kevin> query plug-in: "/usr/lib/gimp/0.99/plug-ins/xscanimage"
> Kevin> /usr/lib/gimp/0.99/plug-ins/xscanimage: invalid option -- g
> Kevin> Usage: xscanimage [OPTION]... [DEVICE]
>
> Looks like GIMP support didn't get compiled in. Maybe you need to
> specify --with-CFLAGS and/or --with-LDFLAGS options to configure to
> ensure that it can pick up the gimp header file and libraries?

Suggestion: Make -g an option that does

printf ("Gimp support not compiled into xscanimage.\n");
exit (1);

when gimp support is turned off....

Roger.

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