Porting SANE backend 1.0.21 to FreeBSD 7.2

Warren Block wblock at wonkity.com
Sat May 22 18:11:35 UTC 2010


On Sat, 22 May 2010, Mark Terribile wrote:

> If this is the wrong place, please be gentle!  I need to get a Canon 8800F scanner running on FreeBSD 7.2 .  SANE's latest version is said to support this scanner.

sane-backends 1.0.21 showed up in ports this morning...

> I have gotten a copy of it to build (and fed a few minor problems back 
> to the people at the SANE project: 
> https://alioth.debian.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=410366&aid=312503&group_id=30186)

Not sure what's going on in that thread, but the upstream software 
developer really shouldn't have to worry about FreeBSD paths and where 
the FreeBSD port is going to end up directory-wise.  That's kind of what 
the port is all about.

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA


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