On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 18:58:22 +0100 Henning Meier-Geinitz <henn...@meier-geinitz.de> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 05:48:22PM +0000, Nick Lindsell wrote: > > I've just done a fresh install. > > In /usr/local/lib there is a broken link "libsane.a -> sane/libsane-dll.a" > > There is no such file "/usr/local/lib/sane/libsane-dll.a" > > > > > > What is /usr/local/lib/libsane.a supposed to be? > > That's a link to a static SANE library, usually the DLL library. The > default build system doesn't link and install static libraries, so > this link is from an older installation. Either remove it or build the > static libaries: configure --enable-static. Looking at backend/Makefile.in, seems that the libsane.a link is made unconditionally, even if the static libraries are not built - in which case it will be broken.
