Johannes Meixner <[email protected]> writes: > Hello, > > On Jul 4 13:02 Mogens J?ger wrote (shortened): >> make[1]: Entering directory >> `/home/mogens/Programmer/Gimp-relateret/sane-backends-1.0.18/doc' >> Generating index for sane.ps... >> make[1]: *** [sane.ind] Error 1 > ...
As I pointed out in a separate mail, this is probably caused by missing latex and/or makeindex programs. This is therefore a problem with the build system ;-) If latex or makeindex are not there, don't try to make sane.ind (or bomb at the end of ./configure). >> My system is SuSE10.1 on an AMD64 bit, >> scanner is an Epson perfection 2450Photo = GT9700 attached to the >> firewire port. >> When trying to install the 'epkowa' package, I am told to install sane >> first > > Why don't you use our sane package for Suse Linux 10.1 for AMD64 bit > together with the matching sane-32bit package which we provide > especially for AMD64 bit so that even binary-only i386-only stuff > like Image Scan should work even on an AMD64 bit system. > > In any case: > This is not a SANE problem but a problem caused by the binary-only > i386-only Image Scan and you should ask where you got this software > to provide also a ready-to-use version for AMD64 bit. Seconded ;-) # Although I don't want to imagine the breakage that will likely be # caused by a 32->64 bit change ... Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen EPSON AVASYS Corporation, SE1 FSF Associate Member #1962 sign up at http://member.fsf.org/ GnuPG key: 6BE37D90/AB6B 0D1F 99E7 1BF5 EB97 976A 16C7 F27D 6BE3 7D90 Penguin's lib! -- I hack, therefore I am -- LPIC-2
