Re: problem installing sane

From: Jack and Julie Saba (saba@ari.net)
Date: Wed Jan 03 2001 - 15:19:56 PST

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    Oliver Rauch wrote:
    >
    > Jack and Julie Saba wrote:
    > >
    > > Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote:
    > > >
    > > > Hi,
    > > >
    > > > On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 06:04:43PM -0500, Jack and Julie Saba wrote:
    > > > > b. I ran .configure, make, and make install in the
    > > > > sane-backends-1.0.4 directory. Everything seemed to run OK
    > > > > with the default configuration. I did not make any manual
    > > > > changes to the makefile. There is no entry for
    > > > > /usr/local/lib in /etc/ld.so.conf, as appropriate for sane
    > > > > versions > 1.01.
    > > >
    > > > Please reread the INSTALL file about this carefully. There should be a
    > > > line /usr/local/lib in /etc/ld.so.conf. The comment is talking about
    > > > /usr/local/lib/sane which should not be in ld.so.conf. Also run
    > > > ldconfig after the installation of sane-backends.
    > > >
    > > > Does it work now?
    > > >
    > > > Bye,
    > > > Henning
    > >
    > > Henning,
    > >
    > > Thanks for responding. Yes, you are right, I misread the
    > > INSTALL documentation. The /usr/local/lib entry is
    > > required. Unfortunately, adding this and running ldconfig
    > > did NOT solve the problem -- the same error occurs at the
    > > same place when running ./configure for sane-frontend-1.0.4:
    > >
    > > checking for SANE - version >= 1.0.0... no
    > > *** Could not run SANE test program, checking why...
    > > *****************************************************************
    > > ERROR: SANE is needed for compiling sane-frontends
    > > - if you installed SANE as rpm make sure you also included
    > > sane-devel
    > > *****************************************************************
    > >
    >
    > Hi Jack,
    >
    > did you call
    > make distclean
    > or
    > rm config.cache
    > before you called
    > ./configure
    >
    > Bye
    > Oliver
    >

    I hadn't. Didn't realize I should. Tried both, but neither
    made any difference. Still having the same problem.

    Jack Saba
    saba@ari.net
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