Olaf, On Wednesday, 2020-02-12 20:17:17 +0900, you wrote:
> ... > You could copy your libsane-$BACKEND.* to wherever libsane.* gets > installed, i.e. $libdir in ./configure terms. Ok, since I'm currently installing into my home directory, I get $ ls -lp lib/ total 336 -rwxr-xr-x 1 rainer rainer 933 2020-02-08 14:52 libsane.la lrwxrwxrwx 1 rainer rainer 17 2020-02-08 14:52 libsane.so -> libsane.so.1.0.29 lrwxrwxrwx 1 rainer rainer 17 2020-02-08 14:52 libsane.so.1 -> libsane.so.1.0.29 -rwxr-xr-x 1 rainer rainer 327824 2020-02-08 14:52 libsane.so.1.0.29 drwx------ 2 rainer rainer 4096 2020-02-08 14:52 pkgconfig/ drwx------ 2 rainer rainer 4096 2020-02-08 14:52 sane/ $ ls -lp lib/sane/ total 1220 -rwxr-xr-x 1 rainer rainer 963 2020-02-08 14:52 libsane-dll.la lrwxrwxrwx 1 rainer rainer 21 2020-02-08 14:52 libsane-dll.so -> libsane-dll.so.1.0.29 lrwxrwxrwx 1 rainer rainer 21 2020-02-08 14:52 libsane-dll.so.1 -> libsane-dll.so.1.0.29 -rwxr-xr-x 1 rainer rainer 327808 2020-02-08 14:52 libsane-dll.so.1.0.29 -rwxr-xr-x 1 rainer rainer 991 2020-02-08 14:52 libsane-pixma.la lrwxrwxrwx 1 rainer rainer 23 2020-02-08 14:52 libsane-pixma.so -> libsane-pixma.so.1.0.29 lrwxrwxrwx 1 rainer rainer 23 2020-02-08 14:52 libsane-pixma.so.1 -> libsane-pixma.so.1.0.29 -rwxr-xr-x 1 rainer rainer 906992 2020-02-08 14:52 libsane-pixma.so.1.0.29 $ If I understand you correctly, I could replace "~/lib/libsane.so.1.0.29" with a symbolic link to "~/lib/sane/libsane-pixma.so.1.0.29", and that would just work. Hmm ... isn't that something "make install" could do on its own, if just a single backend is configured? I do not have any numbers regarding whether or not people configuring only a single back- end are the extreme exception, but it could optimize their installation. Sincerely, Rainer
