Once again, thanks for your nearly instantaneous reply. When I run ./autogen.sh I get what is shown below an apparent infinite loop leading to a segmentation fault. I suspect that this is related to the highlighted line below, but I am not clear on what to try ti address it.
Some specific information. - this is from a download that I made today from https://gitlab.com/sane-project/backends/-/tree/master/backend - I downloaded as a zip and expanded the zip into a newly-created directory. I ran the command in that directory. - prior to running the command I verified the presence of libtool-bin, libusb-dev, autoconf, libjpeg-dev, and gettext, - All were at or more advanced than the versions specified in the README - I did not check for libgphoto2 or a C++11 compliant C++ compiler as I only intended to rebuild the fujitso backend. - I have rebooted and redownloaded the backends repository to an empty directory with no change - In order to capture the early error output I reran the command as ~/HETP/sane/backends-master$ ./autogen.sh > output.txt 2>&1 - my goal is to get a fujitsu backend rebuilt according to the instructions to enable sanner-side compression as described in https://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/sane-devel/2009-April/024516.html - If there is an easier way to accomplish this I am open to suggestions. *autoreconf: Entering directory `.'autoreconf: running: autopoint --forceCopying file po/Rules-quotautoreconf: running: aclocal --force --warnings=all -I m4fatal: not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .gitconfigure.ac:14 <http://configure.ac:14>: error: AC_INIT should be called with package and version arguments/usr/share/aclocal-1.15/init.m4:29: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE is expanded from...configure.ac:14 <http://configure.ac:14>: the top levelautom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1aclocal: error: echo failed with exit status: 1autoreconf: aclocal failed with exit status: 1patching file ./ltmain.shHunk #1 FAILED at 9708.Hunk #2 FAILED at 10166.2 out of 2 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file ./ltmain.sh.rejpatch: **** Can't reopen file ./ltmain.sh : No such file or directory* * (the above line repeated approximately 11,000 times)* *patch: **** Can't create file ./ltmain.sh.orig./autogen.sh: line 6: 5152 Segmentation fault (core dumped) patch "$srcdir/ltmain.sh" "$srcdir/ltmain.sh.patch"patching file ./po/Rules-quotfatal: not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .gitconfigure.ac:14 <http://configure.ac:14>: error: AC_INIT should be called with package and version arguments/usr/share/aclocal-1.15/init.m4:29: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE is expanded from...configure.ac:14 <http://configure.ac:14>: the top levelautom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1aclocal: error: echo failed with exit status: 1autoreconf: aclocal failed with exit status: 1* On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 5:13 PM Ralph Little <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > On 2020-08-31 5:06 p.m., Wes Rishel wrote: > > > ./configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu > --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --enable-avahi > make > sudo make install > > However, there is no file named configure in the download, and whereis > configure shows no Ubuntu command with that name. > > There is a file configure.ac but it does have execute permission and it > has lines that being with dnl that bash does not recognize as commands. > > > Please follow the build instructions in the README file at the top level > of the repo. > If you are building from a git clone then you have a few steps: > > The quick version is here: > > ./autogen.sh > ./configure > make > make install > > However, you should read the full version for details. > In particular, you might have to be root to run make install, or you might > want to run configure with options to deliver the build products to > somewhere other than your system. > > Cheers, > Ralph > > > > >
