On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 05:03:49PM -0600, Frank Zago wrote: > > > Yes. Every backend is linked with every library that's needed by at > > > least one backend. That's true for e.g. libdl and libjpeg, too. That's > > > just a way to make linking simple. To be honest, I don't really > > > understand all this shared libs linking, e.g. why libjpeg is linked to > > > linsane*.so *and* to the frontends. But as it seems to work it must be > > > ok (?). > > > > Would you accept a patch to the makefile to fix that? > > If it works, we can include it. Just try :-)
Check that patch: http://fz.eryx.net/sane/#configure It works here. It greatly reduces the number of libraries linked with the backends and the fontend. I haven't tested with gphoto or *bsd. Frank.
