autoreconf -i -f seems to have enabled me to make the backends. So now I am trying the approach of adding a new backend (copy of an existing one) to the backends to see if I can install that.
Paul ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Bagwell" <ch...@cnpbagwell.com> To: "Paul Newall" <p.newalls at ntlworld.com> Cc: <sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org> Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2011 7:15 PM Subject: Re: [sane-devel] sane backend build system - help Its common to have a newer version of autofoo tools on your system and you'll need to update the pre-existing files committed in git. Try running with install option to get newer versions of files: autoreconf -i If that doesn't work then use the force option: autoreconf -i -f Chris On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Paul Newall <p.newalls at ntlworld.com> wrote: > I want to write a new backend. > Currently the main obstacle is that I find the backend build system very > intimidating. > I have no experience of autoconf, automake, or libtool. > On my system (ubuntu 10.10) I can run autoreconf and ./configure > apparently > OK, but when I run make I get these errors: > > libtool: Version mismatch error. This is libtool 2.2.10, but the > libtool: definition of this LT_INIT comes from libtool 2.2.6b. > libtool: You should recreate aclocal.m4 with macros from libtool 2.2.10 > libtool: and run autoconf again. > make[2]: *** [libsane_la-dll-s.lo] Error 63 > > How would I recreate aclocal.m4 with macros from libtool 2.2.10 ? I don't > have much idea what that means. > > Is it best to start by adding an empty new backend to the build system? > (in > which case I will need to get the build system to work first) > Or would it be better to make and install the new backend independently > during development? (this might be easier? and it might give me a faster > modify, build, test cycle during development? But are there difficulties > that I have not discovered yet?) > > > -- > 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 >
