The genesys backend is a part of sane-backends, which is certainly included with ubuntu. Why do you need to compile anything?
allan On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 2:37 PM, jerry <jerry at tr2.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I just got a little mobile scanner on Ebay ( a Visioneer strobe XP300 ) > and desire to use it with my Ubuntu systems. I see that support for such > things is in the "genesys" backend, which alas is not part of the standard > Ubuntu installation. So I had to leave the comfortable world of Ubuntu > packages and go get the source. I downloaded backends v1.0.24 and frontends > 1.0.14. > > The backend build informed me that the library had moved from /usr/lib to > /usr/local/lib and advised to > uninstall sane before installing the source build. OK, I uninstalled SANE > with the Synasptic package manager. The usual configure/make/make install > sequence worked without incident. > > Trying the same thing with the frontend, the compile failed with a couple > of undefined constants: > SANE_OPTION_IS_SETTABLE and SANE_CAP_ALWAYS_SETTABLE. A web search told me > that these defines had been removed at some point. So I commented out both > of them. > > Scanimage complained that it couldn't find /usr/lib/libsane.so.1 - so I > stuck in a symbolic link. The real fix of course would > be to get the source of scanimage.... > > I also have a Brother multifunction machine out on my network, and have > used the Brother SANE driver to access it. That scanner doesn't seem to be > visible now. The Brother stuff is not open source - they just give you > their compiled libs. I copied them from /usr/lib/sane to > /usr/local/lib/sane, but no Brother action from scanimage. Do I have to do > something special to make SANE "notice" that there is a Brother driver in > there? Maybe an ldconfig command? > > - Jerry Kaidor > > > -- > sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" > to sane-devel-request at lists.alioth.debian.org -- "The truth is an offense, but not a sin"
