Hi
On Wed, Sep 2, 2020, 09:26 David Niklas, <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > It might be that you are missing the autoconf-archive package. Sometimes we see weird stuff like that in autoconf if that is missing. Cheers Ralph >
