Sounds good. Chris- can you coordinate with Olaf to do something similar with sane's copy of ltmain?
allan On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 7:43 PM, Olaf Meeuwissen <olaf.meeuwissen at avasys.jp> wrote: > "m. allan noah" <kitno455 at gmail.com> writes: > >> [switching sane build system to autotools] >> You (and others on this list) have more experience with these tools >> than I, so I am willing to defer to your judgement. But watch out for >> the sane-specific copy of libtool. We have some hacks in there to make >> each sane backend's .so export symbols so that it can be linked >> directly. > > The iscan sources include these changes as a patch to ltmain.sh and > uses a little bootstrap script to apply it. > > I'd be happy to help out with converting the SANE build system to an > autotool based one. FWIW, iscan started out with SANE's build system > and I've converted it to use autotools a few years ago. > > Hope this helps, > -- > Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2 FLOSS Engineer -- AVASYS Corporation > FSF Associate Member #1962 Help support software freedom > http://www.fsf.org/jf?referrer=1962 > -- "The truth is an offense, but not a sin"
