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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Sat, 20 Nov 2004, sindi keesan wrote:

> I managed to compile SANE 0.57 on BL2 but I had to add to all the Makefile's 
> on the CFLAGS and CPFLAGS lines (after configuring, or I could have done this 
> to Makefile.in first, I think)
> -I/usr/src/linux-2.2.16/include
>
> Why was this necessary?  Otherwise the compiler could not find various 
> include files.  Is BL2 missing some piece, or might I have deleted something 
> I should not have?

Apparently the configure file from this 1997 version of SANE source code 
is not able to find the /include directory in our year 2000 linux and 
either I will have to modify Makefiles adding to the CFLAGS line or put 
something about CFLAGS and CPFLAGS in the environment, which I think you 
do by 'export CFLAGS = ...' in /etc/profile.  If I do not try to compile 
older source code than 2000 this might not be necessary again. Include 
files must have been located somewhere else in older linuxes from 1997.

It was suggested that I install all the compiled files, keep a log, adn 
then delete the parts I don't want (qcam, mustek, net, wire).

make install 2>&1 |tee log - should show me what is happening and keep a 
record including part 2 which is errors and does not usually get into the 
log.