Can't get SANE to compile on SGI

Brent L. Bates (blbates@vigyan.com)
Fri, 24 Apr 1998 12:31:28 -0400

I've been trying to compile SANE (tried both versions 0.71 & 0.72) on a SGI
running IRIX 6.2 and the make file in the `backend' directory is screwed up and
will not let me finish. The error message I'm getting is:

making all in backend
"Makefile", line 179: Missing dependency operator
"Makefile", line 188: Need an operator
Fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue

Line 179 looks like this:

ifneq ($(DLL_PRELOAD),)

This doesn't look like a standard make command. I have tried using the
standard `make' command and SGI's `smake/pmake' command and neither work.
The `README' file says something about using GNU make, this is NOT an
option. I HAVE a STANDARD make command. I'm not going to waste disk space
with a non-standard make command. If you are going to make this software
available, then don't use proprietary software, use standard utitities and NO,
GNU make is NOT a standard utitity.

So far, I also found a bug in one include file, include/sane/sanei_pio.h
It should have something like the following:

#if defined (HAVE_IOPERM) && !defined (IO_SUPPORT_MISSING)
extern SANE_Status sanei_pio_open (const char * dev, int * fd);
#else /* !HAVE_IOPERM */
extern int sanei_pio_open (const char *dev, SANE_Status * status);
#endif /* !HAVE_IOPERM */

This is so the include file matches the logic in the file:
sanei/sanei_pio.c

I'd really like to use this software ASAP, but this screwed up makefile is
causing me head aches and I have yet figured out how to fix the makefile so
that it works correctly.
Thanks for any help.

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