Hi Rainer, Dr Rainer Woitok writes:
> 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. Correct. > 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. It probably could. If interested, please submit an issue (or merge request :-). 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
