Hi Rainer, Dr Rainer Woitok writes:
> [...] > Next I cloned the Git repository in order to be able to freely change > between various versions to find one which is working for me by compil- > ing "sane-backends" myself. For a first test I checked out changeset > 1942c5fd32a7 authored by Olaf Meeuwissen <[email protected]> at > 2020-01-26 10:56:34 +0000. However while running > > ./autogen.sh && ./configure > > I got two warnings which I do not quite understand: > > configure: WARNING: Group uucp does not exist on this system. > configure: WARNING: Locking feature will be disabled. > > The group does in fact exist: > > $ ls -l /etc/group /etc/gshadow > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 755 2020-01-14 10:03 /etc/group > -r--r----- 1 root root 622 2020-01-14 10:03 /etc/gshadow > $ grep uucp /etc/group /etc/gshadow > /etc/group:uucp:x:14:uucp > /etc/gshadow:uucp:::uucp > $ > > So what does that mean? Do "configure" and "make" want myself to be a > memer of group "uucp" while I'm just compiling the stuff? This shouldn't be anything to worry about but I've submitted an issue for it. You can find it at: https://gitlab.com/sane-project/backends/issues/235 If you could add distribution/version info as well as attach your config.log and config.status there, that would be appreciated. # I vaguely recall seeing this myself ... on Debian 8 (?) ... IIRC. > [...] and will report back how it went. Waiting, patiently ;-) Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2 FSF Associate Member since 2004-01-27 GnuPG key: F84A2DD9/B3C0 2F47 EA19 64F4 9F13 F43E B8A4 A88A F84A 2DD9 Support Free Software https://my.fsf.org/donate Join the Free Software Foundation https://my.fsf.org/join
