Hi, AFAIK the configure script in sane-frontends (and also QuiteInsane and probably XSane ?) relies on the output of "sane-config --libs" and adds it output to LIBS. This seems to result in rather misleading error messages on MDK 9.1 in some situations. Obviously MDK creates required symlinks only, if the devel packages are installed too. Example: The "libusb*" package installs /usr/lib/libusb-0.1.so.4 and /usr/lib/libusb-0.1.so.4.1.1, but the symlink /usr/lib/libusb.so is only created if one installs the "libusb-devel*" package. However, one can install the "sane-devel*" package, without being forced to install the required additional devel packages too. When the user now tries to configure e.g. sane-frontends, (s)he gets the well known error message "ERROR: Couldn't find SANE libraries (sane-backends)." while the real problem is, that the test program could not link with libusb, libieee1284, libgphoto2 and so on...
Now to the questions: 1. Can someone confirm this dependency problem ?(Just want to be sure, that it wasn't the users fault) 2. Should we simply consider this a problem with broken dependencies on MDK9.1? Does it also happen on other distros? Thanks Michael
