Re: SANE on OS/2 (Was: new snapscan user)

From: Paul Floyd (paulf@free.fr)
Date: Thu Nov 02 2000 - 13:13:06 PST

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    FWIW I just got sane 1.0.3 (plus latest source) to compile and run under
    OS/2.

    Regards
    Paul

    Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
    >
    > [Henning Meier-Geinitz]
    > > That's not nice. I think the SANE developers won't refuse to include
    > > patches for OS/2 (if they can be included without disrupting
    > > installation on Unix). However, someone with knowledge of OS/2 must
    > > prepare patches and do testing. There seem to have been
    > > communication between Petter Reinholdtsen and Yuri Dario about the
    > > OS/2 port but I haven't seen any results from this.
    >
    > I got no reply to my last email, and have not received anything for
    > months. As far as I know, the major change required is to add some
    > fork / thread API to sanei, which would work both on Unix and OS/2.
    >
    > He made some patches, but I did not like them and did not include them
    > in CVS. Too many #ifdef in the backends themselves. I want the
    > backends to use the same API on all platforms, and keep all the
    > #ifdefs in sanei/.
    >
    > Apart from this, I believe everything else required to compile SANE on
    > OS/2 should be included.
    > --
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    >
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