Hi David, Ralph, Ralph Little writes:
> 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 po/remove-potcdate.sin >> autoreconf: running: aclocal --force --warnings=all -I m4 >> fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git Oops! Looks like you downloaded one of the GitLab provided tar archives of some snapshot of the repository. Those are pretty useless (see #248) at the moment. https://gitlab.com/sane-project/backends/-/issues/248 You want to do one of: 1. git clone https://gitlab.com/sane-project/backends.git 2. wget https://gitlab.com/sane-project/backends/uploads/8bf1cae2e1803aefab9e5331550e5d5d/sane-backends-1.0.31.tar.gz If you use 1., you'll need to start from the ./autogen.sh step. If you use 2. you can start from the ./configure step. >> [...] >> I'm on Devuan (Debian) Linux. Cool! So am I. >> If you have any ideas how to fix or work around this, please send them. See above. > It might be that you are missing the autoconf-archive package. > Sometimes we see weird stuff like that in autoconf if that is missing. Sorry but things went wrong before that part came into the picture. 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
