Hello, Am 10.11.2010 10:02, schrieb Johannes Meixner: > > Hello, > > On Nov 9 18:39 Wilhelm wrote (shortened): >> Am 09.11.2010 17:47, schrieb Johannes Meixner: >>> >>> If it really needs HAL, it is probably not very promising >>> because HAL is meanwhile deprecated. >> >> yes, I know that! >> >> But its not scanbd's fault > > Of course it is not scanbd's fault! > > >> Bottom line: scanbd may use libhal/dbus, but if hal isn't >> available, it does not hurt: the only consequence is, >> that newly plugged scanners aren't instantly detected. >> Then you can send a signal or restart it via udev. > > Now it looks promising! > > In particular because udev rules for very most scanners do already > exist (a libsane.rules udev rules file from SANE plus generic > udev rules like acl.rules) it should be relatively easy to > enhance this to send additionally a singal to scanbd. > > According to > http://scanbd.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/scanbd/trunk/Makefile?revision=23&view=markup > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > LDFLAGS += -lconfuse -lsane -lpthread -ldbus-1 -lhal -lhal-storage > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > it seems it links with HAL libraries in any case so that > I got the idea that it actually needs HAL in any case. > > Because HAL is deprecated, would you mind to change it > so that it does no longer link with HAL so that it > would compile "as is" for current Linux distributions?
Sure, I can make this optional. > > > If you like to provide readymade RPMs for the usual current > Linux distributions for the usual hardware architectures, > I would like to suggest to have a look at the openSUSE build service: > https://build.opensuse.org/ Thanks, I will have a look. > > It is open and free to our greatest possible extent. > All you need to do is to register yourself before you can use it. > The only non-free issue is that we (i.e. Novell/openSUSE) > do not support building of packages as an anonymous user. > > > Kind Regards > Johannes Meixner -- Wilhelm
