On Sunday 25 April 2004 13:41, Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 10:50:48AM +0200, Laurent-jan Dullaart wrote: > > As a part of rejuvenating the FAQ, I went through rhe installation process > > again. My first dissapointment was the need to upgrade GIMP if I wanted to > > compile the sane-frontends as GIMP plug-in. Oh, well... > > Which version of gimp did you want to use?
1.2.0 > I tested 1.2.0 and 2.0 and both > worked. Older versions should also work but I didn't test them. > That surprises me a bit. Reading the config-log, I'd think 1.3.23 was the minimum version: configure:8004: checking for GIMP - version >= 1.3.23 configure:8166: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 -Wall -D_GNU_SOURCE conftest.c -lm >&5 conftest.c:10:1: warning: "PACKAGE_VERSION" redefined conftest.c:5:1: warning: this is the location of the previous definition In file included from conftest.c:53: <and some more compile/parse errors> On the other hand, the SANE-API is sufficiently well designed to be able to use the older frontends(1.0.9) with the new backends (1.0.13) without recompiling the oldones. > > But more seriously: when compiling the xsane 0.92, I got the message: > > > > file=./`echo cs | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo \ > > && rm -f $file && PATH=../src:$PATH no -o $file cs.po > > /bin/sh: no: command not found > > make: *** [cs.gmo] Error 127 > > > > Browsing through the mailinglist, I found that a > > ./configure --disable-nls > > avoided this errormessage. So I got xsane compiled and running. But it is > > a nasty errormessage that should get fixed. > > Looks like a real bug in xsane: While the configure script tests for > msgformat, it still tries to run that program if it's not present. It > doesn't help to use the internal NLS in that case as it doesn't > provide msgformat either. xsane should disable NLS in that case > automatically. > > xsane comes with .gmo files bu they are older then the .po files so > the Makefile rebuilds them. > From: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/2003-June/008196.html and some mails on the 0.80-version I understand that the problem has been there before. -- (c) ljm ( xs4all) No part of this copyright message may be reproduced, read or seen, dead or alive or by any means, including but not limited to telepathy without the benevolence of the author.
