Hi Ralph, Ralph Little writes:
> Hi, > > On Wednesday, August 28, 2019, 4:43:48 a.m. PDT, Olaf Meeuwissen > <paddy-h...@member.fsf.org> wrote: >> I'd suggest modifying m4/sane.m4 to use pkg-config or simply inline the >> PKG_CONFIG macro call directly in configure.ac, replacing AM_PATH_SANE. > >> Q: How good is your autofoo? Are you familiar with autoconf and >> friends? If not, I'll be around to help out, even make the changes >> needed, if needed, after looking at the fine print ;-) > > Not great TBH but I'm learning. Good. > Looking into autoconf, it feels like I need a book of spells rather > than documentation to properly configure it. :P Don't forget the dirty dozen of magic wands, I heard Amazon has a great deal on those, and a GNU/Hurd of sacrificial goats. The latter are a great deal harder to get a hold off ;-P And that's before you get to automake :-/ Actually, the documentation isn't that bad but it takes a bit of time to grasp how all the various files and utilities combine. >>> Should we be able to rely on the existence of pkgconfig in the xsane >>> build to locate and link with libsane? > >> I'd say yes as sane-backends provides the necessary *.pc file. >> The sane-frontends also need to be cluebatted on current practice. It >> hasn't seen a release since 2005-09-18 :scream: > > Perhaps after we have a functioning xsane build we could have a > splurge on killing sane-config for good.I find its existence > confusing, especially in distros that have a sane-config manpage but > no actual sane-config. I submitted sane-project/backends#129 for that. See https://gitlab.com/sane-project/backends/issues/129 > I'm happy to have a look at the sane frontend build with my new found > autoconf foo. By all means. Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2 FSF Associate Member since 2004-01-27 GnuPG key: F84A2DD9/B3C0 2F47 EA19 64F4 9F13 F43E B8A4 A88A F84A 2DD9 Support Free Software https://my.fsf.org/donate Join the Free Software Foundation https://my.fsf.org/join -- sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel@alioth-lists.debian.net https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" to sane-devel-requ...@lists.alioth.debian.org