Hi,

> These links are very old and AFAIK have never worked.
> I planned to make the backend authors to write a html document for their 
> backends, but if I remeber right this has never happened.
> Looks like you are the first one who tested this within the last 5 or 10 
> years ;)

So this is the good chance to change the situation, isn't it?

> When sane-backends installs html documents for the backends
> then I will update the links.

Could you tell me more?

As far as reading sane-backends/doc/Makefile.in, following patch for
backends/docs/Makefile.in satisfies you:

--- Makefile.in 06  6月 2006 03:45:23 +0900       1.90
+++ Makefile.in 28  1月 2007 16:14:30 +0900       
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@
 .PHONY: all clean depend dist distclean html html-man install \
   sane-html uninstall
 
-all: $(STANDARD) $(MANPAGES) html-pages
+all: $(STANDARD) $(MANPAGES) html
 
 %.1 %.5 %.7 %.8: %.man
        @sed -e 's|@DATADIR@|$(datadir)|g' \
@@ -161,7 +161,11 @@
        @-for doc in $(DOCS) $(HTML_PAGES); do \
            echo installing $${doc} in $(docdir)/$${doc}...; \
            $(INSTALL_DATA) $${doc} $(DESTDIR)$(docdir)/$${doc}; \
-         done
+       done
+       @-for page in $(MANPAGES); do \
+         echo "installing $${page}.html in $(docdir)/$${page}.html..."; \
+         $(INSTALL_DATA) $${page}.html $(DESTDIR)$(docdir)/$${page}.html; \
+       done
 
 uninstall:
        @for page in $(SECT1); do \

Masatake YAMATO

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