On Sun, 2005-12-11 at 00:41 +0100, Erik P. Olsen wrote: > Sane is implemented in FC4/x86_64 with one x86_64 frontend and two (i386 > and x86_64) backends. I guess the i386 backends are there to interface > to i386 only frontends and the x86_64 backends interface xsane and > scanimage. > > My problem with this approch is that I need to upgrade sane-backends to > the latest level which I would normally do by compiling them according > to the instructions found on the sane projects web pages. However, such > compilations will only affect the i386 elements and therefore I'll not > have the upgrade I thought. Does anybody know how I should compile the > x86_64 version? The sane-project doesn't know and refer to the Fedora > team packagers who apparently have done it all by themselves. > > Would a decent circumvention be to erase the sane packages from the > system and compile new ones to an i386 platform or will that not work? Following applies a fix to the x86_64 version of sane-backends assuming it has been copied into the standard source: 1. rpm -e --nodeps sane-backends-1.0.15-9.x86_64 2. CFLAGS="-m64" ./configure --sysconfdir=/etc --libdir=/usr/lib64 -- prefix=/usr 3. make 4. make install -- Regards, Erik P. Olsen
