Hello, on my test system (Slackware 13.37): - i cloned current git tree - did a static build that failed linking - applied the library order patch - done 'autoreconf' - rebuilt successfully and got a ~9.5 MB scanimage and saned ....
The 'auto' packages used were: autoconf 2.68 automake 1.11.1 So I believe it would be fine to apply it to the git tree. Regards, Stef