An update: I did get sane-backends built and installed simply by commenting out the canon backend.
sane-frontends is having the following issues: making all in src cc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../include -I../include -I/usr/local/include -I/sw/include/gtk-1.2 -I/sw/include/glib-1.2 -I/sw/lib/glib/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -D_GNU_SOURCE -DPATH_SANE_DATA_DIR=/usr/local/share/sane -DV_MAJOR=1 -DV_MINOR=0 -DV_BUILD=7 -DSANE_V_MAJOR=1 -g -O2 -Wall -I/usr/local/include -I/sw/include/gtk-1.2 -I/sw/include/glib-1.2 -I/sw/lib/glib/include -I/usr/X11R6/include scanadf.c cc -L/usr/local/lib -o scanadf scanadf.o ../lib/liblib.a -lm -lsane -lm /usr/bin/ld: archive: ../lib/liblib.a has no table of contents, add one with ranlib(1) (can't load from it) /usr/bin/ld: multiple definitions of symbol _getopt /usr/lib/libm.dylib(getopt.o) definition of _getopt /usr/local/lib/libsane.a(getopt.o) definition of _getopt in section (__TEXT,__text) /usr/bin/ld: multiple definitions of symbol _optarg /usr/lib/libm.dylib(getopt.o) definition of _optarg /usr/local/lib/libsane.a(getopt.o) definition of _optarg in section (__DATA,__data) /usr/bin/ld: multiple definitions of symbol _opterr /usr/lib/libm.dylib(getopt.o) definition of _opterr /usr/local/lib/libsane.a(getopt.o) definition of _opterr in section (__DATA,__data) /usr/bin/ld: multiple definitions of symbol _optind /usr/lib/libm.dylib(getopt.o) definition of _optind /usr/local/lib/libsane.a(getopt.o) definition of _optind in section (__DATA,__data) /usr/bin/ld: multiple definitions of symbol _optopt /usr/lib/libm.dylib(getopt.o) definition of _optopt /usr/local/lib/libsane.a(getopt.o) definition of _optopt in section (__DATA,__data) make[1]: *** [scanadf] Error 1 make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 [/Users/paul/src/sane-frontends-1.0.7]:: uname -a Darwin pink 5.3 Darwin Kernel Version 5.3: Thu Jan 24 22:06:02 PST 2002; root:xnu/xnu-201.19.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh powerpc (paul@pink)-(10:27 PM / Sun Apr 7) [/Users/paul/src/sane-frontends-1.0.7]:: cc -v Reading specs from /usr/libexec/gcc/darwin/ppc/2.95.2/specs Apple Computer, Inc. version gcc-932.1, based on gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release) -- Paul Beard 8040 27th Ave NE Seattle WA 98115 206 529 8400 Murphy's Law is recursive. Washing your car to make it rain doesn't work.
