those files were not distributed in the sane source tarball. either get them from cvs, or (even better) do your work in the cvs version of sane.
allan 2008/10/3 Kisliakov, A. - Andrew - <Andrew.Kisliakov at canon-europe.com>: > Hi all, > > > > I've just tried adding a new backend file and, as instructed in the > backend-writing.txt file, I modified the file configure.in and ran autoconf. > This has resulted in the following errors: > > > > /usr/bin/m4:acinclude.m4:606: cannot open `m4/libtool.m4': No such file or > directory > > /usr/bin/m4:acinclude.m4:607: cannot open `m4/byteorder.m4': No such file or > directory > > /usr/bin/m4:acinclude.m4:608: cannot open `m4/stdint.m4': No such file or > directory > > > > So far I have tried doing this on up-to-date Fedora 9 and Ubuntu 8.04 > systems, with the same results. > > > > I suspect that a recent update to autoconf or related tools has removed the > above files. > > > > Has anybody experienced similar problems and, if so, is there an easy > workaround until such time as it can be fixed in a future SANE release? > > > > Thanks, > > Andrew > > -- > sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" > to sane-devel-request at lists.alioth.debian.org > -- "The truth is an offense, but not a sin"