Eugene Kanter wrote:
>
> On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Oliver Rauch wrote:
>
> > Hi Eugene,
> >
> > it's me who cared about the frontends.
> >
> > You can not compile sane-frontends without sane-backends.
> > It is the same as if you would like to compile gimp without gtk.
> > You need a sane-backend library to run a sane frontend.
> >
> The gtk is a little bit more whidespread though.
>
> Could you or someone make a change in configure so it can look at
> ../sane-backends for the needed libraries if ones are not installed on the
> system?
Hi Eugene,
I don`t think that we get on the right way if we do so.
If we do this, all other sane frontends like xsane, Star-Office etc
would need the same things.
In fact sane-backends is compareable to gtk and
sane-frontends, xsane, scanadf, Staroffice (and other sane frontends)
are comparable to programs that use gtk. Of course you are right that
gtk is a bit more widespread, but that is not a reason to handle them
in a different way.
> However if frontends is going to be a completely different application
> with different relese cycle then we can just impose a requirement in rpm
> spec file. Currently red hat .spec file has a requirement for tetex-latex
> (for make ps -C doc).
>
I don't know anything about the .spec things.
Are they common for all distributions or is this a read had topic?
Does only sane-frontends need a .spec file? how did the one for
sane-1.0.3 look like?
> Since sane has been split now what names should be used for appropriate
> RPM (and debian) packages?
I suggest to use the names of the packages we use:
sane-backends and sane-frontends
Bye
Oliver
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