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authorJörg Frings-Fürst <debian@jff-webhosting.net>2019-07-31 16:59:49 +0200
committerJörg Frings-Fürst <debian@jff-webhosting.net>2019-07-31 16:59:49 +0200
commit1687222e1b9e74c89cafbb5910e72d8ec7bfd40f (patch)
treed78102ce30207c63e7608eeba743efd680c888dc /README
parent58912f68c2489bcee787599837447e0d64dfd61a (diff)
New upstream version 1.0.28upstream/1.0.28
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@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ http://www.sane-project.org/sane-frontends.html.
Quick install:
==============
+./autogen.sh # only if you just cloned the git repository
./configure
make
make install
@@ -56,6 +57,22 @@ installed.
- libgphoto2 (>=2.0): For the gphoto2 backend.
+If you got the source straight from the git repository, as opposed to
+a source tarball, you will need a few more utilities. These utilities
+should normally *not* be needed for source archives downloaded from
+the project's website at http://www.sane-project.org/.
+
+ - autoconf (>= 2.69) as well as the autoconf-archive (for the
+ AX_CXX_COMPILE_STDCXX and AX_CXX_COMPILE_STDCXX_11 macros)
+
+ - automake (>=1.15)
+
+ - libtool (>=2.4.6)
+
+ - gettext (>=0.19.8)
+
+ - git (>= 2.1.4)
+
SANE should build on most Unix-like systems. Support for OS/2, MacOS X, BeOS,
and Microsoft Windows is also available. For more details look at the
operating system specific README.* files. For a detailed support matrix, see:
@@ -70,7 +87,7 @@ Please check that there aren't any older versions of SANE installed on your
system. Especially if SANE libraries are installed in a different prefix
directory (e.g. /usr/lib/) this may cause problems with external
frontends. Please remove these libraries (libsane.*, sane/libsane-*) by using
-your packet manager or manually before installing this version of SANE.
+your package manager or manually before installing this version of SANE.
Configuration
@@ -127,10 +144,10 @@ to the epson2 and fujitsu backends:
./configure BACKENDS="epson2 fujitsu"
To limit the backends that are preloaded into the DLL, set the variable
-PRELOADABLE_BACKENDS. The following will limit compiling to the epson2
+PRELOADABLE_BACKENDS. The following will limit compiling to the epson2
and fujitsu backends but only preloads the epson2 backend:
- ./configure BACKENDS="epson2 futjisu" PRELOADABLE_BACKENDS="epson2"
+ ./configure BACKENDS="epson2 fujitsu" PRELOADABLE_BACKENDS="epson2"
In addition to these configuration options, there are some more SANE-specific
options and many standard-options. To get a description of available options,