On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 9:29 PM, Chris Bagwell <chris at cnpbagwell.com> wrote: > That is probably the problem now that you mention it... I just looked at > tracker and their is a patch that seems incomplete. > > I could probably get it working but I have an issue to resolve first. I'm > running a newer version of autoconf (2.63) then current CVS files seem to be > based on. Any issues with me submitting configure updates from that version > of autoconf? See my other email as well on this.
sure, let it rip. but now you see why we keep all that stuff in cvs- don't leave it up to me to generate it the day before a release and hope it works for everyone :) allan > > Chris > > On 1/16/2009 7:15 PM, m. allan noah wrote: >> >> there were some patches recently either on the list or in the bug >> tracker to make sane.ps optional if the user did not have latex >> installed. >> >> allan >> >> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 7:11 PM, Chris Bagwell<chris at cnpbagwell.com> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> norv wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Hi and thanks for sane, >>>> I am trying to compile from cvs on debian sid and make fails with >>>> following >>>> lines >>>> >>>> .......> >>>> epkowa.desc: Warning: Backend `epkowa': 8 USB devices without :usbid >>>> brother.desc: Warning: Backend `brother': 1 USB devices without :usbid >>>> brother2.desc: Warning: Backend `brother2': 9 USB devices without :usbid >>>> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/norv/sane-backends/tools' >>>> making all in doc >>>> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/norv/sane-backends/doc' >>>> Generating index for sane.ps... >>>> make[1]: *** [sane.ind] Error 1 >>>> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/norv/sane-backends/doc' >>>> make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 >>>> norv at sid5600:~/sane-backends$ >>>> >>>> I have libusb-dev installed and my configure argument is >>>> >>>> ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var >>>> BACKENDS=pixma >>>> >>>> >>>> I get the same error with and without the BACKENDS=pixma entry. >>>> >>>> What could I do? >>>> Norv >>>> >>>> >>> >>> Is it possible to tell me what time you took a snapshot of CVS? I >>> committed some updates to Makefile.in's at roughly the timestamp of >>> your email. >>> >>> I didn't touch anything related to your failure but I'll try to help out >>> to be sure its not my changes. I've just done a cvs update and mine >>> compiles OK there: >>> >>> Generating index for sane.ps... >>> Generating sane.ps... >>> >>> Some things follow to help debug this. Try running make in debug mode >>> to get better reason for failure (warning: volume of info is huge). >>> >>> cd doc >>> make -d >>> >>> also, the Makefile.in is hiding the output that may explain the failure >>> better. Use an editor that will preserve *tabs* and modify the lines in >>> doc/Makefile.in file: >>> >>> sane.ind: sane.tex net.tex >>> @echo Generating index for sane.ps... >>> @touch sane.ind >>> @$(LATEX) $(srcdir)/sane</dev/null>/dev/null&& \ >>> $(MAKEINDEX) sane.idx 2>/dev/null >>> >>> to be (remove "@"'s and ">/dev/null"'s): >>> >>> sane.ind: sane.tex net.tex >>> @echo Generating index for sane.ps... >>> touch sane.ind >>> $(LATEX) $(srcdir)/sane&& \ >>> $(MAKEINDEX) sane.idx >>> >>> You can email complete output directly to me if it doesn't seem to make >>> sense. >>> >>> Chris >>> p.s. it never hurts to run "cvs update" and "autoreconf" afterwards just >>> to see if it helps. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> 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"
