Hello, I'm trying to install a version of sane-backends that supports my scanner, which would be 1.0.28 or newer. I'm getting an error when trying to run autogen.sh on any version of sane-backends (which is the first step in the INSTALL doc).
# ./autogen.sh autoreconf: Entering directory `.' autoreconf: running: autopoint --force Copying file ABOUT-NLS Copying file config.rpath Copying file m4/codeset.m4 Copying file m4/extern-inline.m4 Copying file m4/fcntl-o.m4 Copying file m4/gettext.m4 Copying file m4/glibc2.m4 Copying file m4/glibc21.m4 Copying file m4/iconv.m4 Copying file m4/intdiv0.m4 Copying file m4/intl.m4 Copying file m4/intldir.m4 Copying file m4/intlmacosx.m4 Copying file m4/intmax.m4 Copying file m4/inttypes-pri.m4 Copying file m4/inttypes_h.m4 Copying file m4/lcmessage.m4 Copying file m4/lib-ld.m4 Copying file m4/lib-link.m4 Copying file m4/lib-prefix.m4 Copying file m4/lock.m4 Copying file m4/longlong.m4 Copying file m4/nls.m4 Copying file m4/po.m4 Copying file m4/printf-posix.m4 Copying file m4/progtest.m4 Copying file m4/size_max.m4 Copying file m4/stdint_h.m4 Copying file m4/threadlib.m4 Copying file m4/uintmax_t.m4 Copying file m4/visibility.m4 Copying file m4/wchar_t.m4 Copying file m4/wint_t.m4 Copying file m4/xsize.m4 Copying file po/Makefile.in.in Copying file po/Makevars.template Copying file po/Rules-quot Copying file po/boldquot.sed Copying file po/[email protected] Copying file po/[email protected] Copying file po/insert-header.sin Copying file po/quot.sed Copying file po/remove-potcdate.sin autoreconf: running: aclocal --force --warnings=all -I m4 fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git 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: the top level autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1 aclocal: error: echo failed with exit status: 1 autoreconf: aclocal failed with exit status: 1 patching file ./ltmain.sh Hunk #1 FAILED at 9615. Hunk #2 FAILED at 10073. 2 out of 2 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file ./ltmain.sh.rej patch: **** Can't reopen file ./ltmain.sh : No such file or directory patching file ./po/Rules-quot fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git 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: the top level autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1 aclocal: error: echo failed with exit status: 1 autoreconf: aclocal failed with exit status: 1 # m4 --version m4 (GNU M4) 1.4.18 # automake --version automake (GNU automake) 1.15 # autoreconf --version autoreconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.69 # aclocal --version aclocal (GNU automake) 1.15 # patch --version GNU patch 2.7.5 I'm on Devuan (Debian) Linux. If you have any ideas how to fix or work around this, please send them. Thanks, David
