On Friday 15 February 2008 18:51:49 Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > On Friday 15 February 2008, Dan Farrell wrote: > > On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 22:34:16 -0600 > > > > Dan Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I haven't been able to build sane-backends. > > > > > > >make[1]: *** No rule to make target `libsane-sane-epson2.la', > > > > needed by `all'. Stop. > > > > > > any thoughts? > > > > Curses! My scanner won't scan a thing. Has anyone else been able to > > successfully build media-gfx/sane-backends lately? > > > > I haven't found anything online... > > Did you read this: > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=179765 > > It seems the posters there had errors similar to yours, and the problem > is apparently related to missing/unavailable external backends or > something like that...one solution *seems* to use SANE_BACKENDS="" in > make.conf, IIUC.
On the other hand, here's a note I've left in my make.conf to remind myself: # This is required not to be present for sane-backends > 1.0.17: #SANE_BACKENDS="epson" -- Rgds Peter -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list