Hello,

I need a short info from anybody of the Linuxexperts here, maybe Geri can tell...

I have got a MFC 9450CDN (compatible to 9840CDW) all in one printer from brother. Before I purchased brother confirmed via mail and phone that scannerdrivers (called brscan2) work on debian (lenny) ppc, but it does not !

I downloaded here: solutions.brother.com

If I start installing like described here
with
"sudo dpkg -i brscan2-0.2.4-......deb"

I get a mistake saying "wrong architecture..."

So I guess drivers are not suitable for ppc.

Is there any chance to make it run on ppc, sources are (partwise, as far as I understood)
here

Any Ideas ?

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The Debian packages are only for the i386 architecture.

I can try to compile it, but I can't even find a README in the archive. Maybe checkinstall can create a Debian package!?

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What exactly is checkinstall ? I will google on that one later..
A recompile would be great...

Thanx

O.K. just googled Checkinstall, and did a bit of reading on that. Correct me if I am wrong:

Checkinstall only builds a deinstallable package, which is usable with e.g. Synaptic packetmanager on my Debina lenny SAMBox. But as far as I read, there is no option to convert the given 386 packaget to a powerpc package, right ?
However I checked on my SAM and I can install "Checkinstall" via Synaptic. But what should happen then ? Always remember I do hardly no anything about Linux...

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@gerograph

No, it's not possible to convert a i386 package to a powerpc package. AFAIK checkinstall just watches the execution of a makefile and thus can create a Debian package with some simple install/remove scripts.

I tried to compile the source code under Debian Lenny, but it fails with a linker error. Not sure what the problem is (I'm no GCC expert), but I guess all the include paths are not adapted for Debian.

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@gerograph

http://solutions.brother.com/linux/sol/printer/linux/sane_drivers.html

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@Geri
Thanx for trying,... so it seems unless there is a PPC Sane Driver (brscan2 PPC) I will have no chance ! Right ?
How high is the chance that a Linux/GCC Expert (maybe paid) can deliver a PPC Version from what we have ?

@NutsAboutAmiga
Thanx for the link, I checked it but I cannot see how this helps me. Yes you can download brscan2 driver, but there are also i386 Packages... maybe I missed out on something, because I am not an expert on Linux

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Source code, just compile it, no skills needed.

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One more questions:

If using an Epson CX11 (maybe CX21), do you think it will be possible to use the scanner under Debian PPC on my SAM ? Sanedrivers seem to be there, if you look on www.sane-project.org.
Are they available for PPC, or can they be converted to PPC ? I did not find any hints on that page regarding Debian PPC compatibility ?

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How to do that ? Can anybody give me infos on that (I am an absolut Linux beginner...)

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@gerograph

Normally there is README file telling you what to type, in the console.

Normally it's

sh ./configure
make all
make install

This line is not need but cleans up the system.

make clean

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@NutsAboutAmiga

O.k. I'll give it a try, but what makes you think this version (seems to be an older version than the sourcecode I found see link above) works, if the one "Geri" already compiled doesn't ?
Thanx for infos... I'll come back later

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Check out http://amigaworld.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=29352&forum=33&15

wisementrading says that the Brother MFC-9840CDW works on his AmigaOne as well as Windows and Linux

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@NutsAboutAmiga

I tried to compile, but got this error message:

"no acceptable C Compiler found in $PATH"

so I installed gcc through synaptic, but still the same message.

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install GCC first

type "dselect" and download end install gcc

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O.k. did that (in fact I installed build-essentials) and sh ./configure seemed to run fine. But if running thte make command I run into serious trouble:



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(cd backend_brscan && make brscan) make[1]: Entering directory `/root/brscan/backend_brscan' sh mk_backend release make libsane-brother make[2]: Entering directory `/root/brscan/backend_brscan' rm -f .libs/brother.lo gcc -c -g -O2 -W -Wall -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../include -I../include -I../libbrscandec -I../libbrcolm -D_GNU_SOURCE -DPATH_SANE_CONFIG_DIR=/usr/local/etc/sane.d -DPATH_SANE_DATA_DIR=/usr/local/share -DV_MAJOR=1 -DV_MINOR=0 -lpthread -DBRSANESUFFIX=1 -DBACKEND_NAME=brother -DLIBDIR=/usr/local/lib/sane brother.c -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/brother.lo brother.c:40:17: error: usb.h: No such file or directory In file included from brother.c:68: brother.h:171: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before 'usb_dev_handle' In file included from brother.c:68: brother.h:307:1: warning: "MAX_PATH" redefined In file included from brother.h:59, from brother.c:68: brother_dtype.h:48:1: warning: this is the location of the previous definition In file included from brother.c:87: brother_devaccs.c: In function 'OpenDevice': brother_devaccs.c:163: error: 'dev_handle' has no member named 'device' brother_devaccs.c:165: error: 'dev_handle' has no member named 'net_device_index' brother_devaccs.c:174: warning: implicit declaration of function 'usleep' brother_devaccs.c:175: error: 'dev_handle' has no member named 'net_device_index' brother_devaccs.c:182: error: 'dev_handle' has no member named 'net_device_index' brother_devaccs.c:198: error: 'dev_handle' has no member named 'usb_r_ep' brother_devaccs.c:229: warning: implicit declaration of function 'usb_control_msg' brother_devaccs.c:229: error: 'dev_handle' has no member named 'usb' brother_devaccs.c:340: error: 'dev_handle' has no member named 'device' brother_devaccs.c:348: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 2 of 'read_device_net' differ in signedness brother_devaccs.c:352: warning: implicit declaration of function 'usb_bulk_read' brother_devaccs.c:352: error: 'dev_handle' has no member named 'usb' brother_devaccs.c:372: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 2 of 'WriteDeviceData' differ in signedness brother_devaccs.c: In function 'CloseDevice': brother_devaccs.c:418: error: 'dev_handle' has no member named 'device' brother_devaccs.c:423: error: 'dev_handle' has no member named 'usb' brother_devaccs.c: In function 'ReadDeviceData': brother_devaccs.c:495: error: 'dev_handle' has no member named 'device' brother_devaccs.c:496: error: 'dev_handle' has no member named 'usb_r_ep' brother_devaccs.c:562: error: 'dev_handle' has no member named 'device' brother_devaccs.c:563: error: 'dev_handle' has no member named 'usb' brother_devaccs.c:576: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 2 of 'read_device_net' differ in signedness brother_devaccs.c: In function 'WriteDeviceData': brother_devaccs.c:853: error: 'dev_handle' has no member named 'device' brother_devaccs.c:861: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 2 of 'write_device_net' differ in signedness brother_devaccs.c:868: error: 'dev_handle' has no member named 'usb_w_ep' brother_devaccs.c:893: warning: implicit declaration of function 'usb_bulk_write' brother_devaccs.c:893: error: 'dev_handle' has no member named 'usb' brother_devaccs.c: In function 'WriteDeviceCommand': brother_devaccs.c:936: error: 'dev_handle' has no member named 'device' brother_devaccs.c:943: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 2 of 'write_device_net' differ in signedness brother_devaccs.c: In function 'usb_set_configuration_or_reset_toggle': brother_devaccs.c:1033: warning: implicit declaration of function 'usb_set_configuration' brother_devaccs.c:1033: error: 'dev_handle' has no member named 'usb' brother_devaccs.c:1035: error: 'dev_handle' has no member named 'usb_w_ep' brother_devaccs.c:1045: warning: implicit declaration of function 'usb_clear_halt' brother_devaccs.c:1045: error: 'dev_handle' has no member named 'usb' In file included from brother.c:87: brother_devaccs.c: In function 'ERRPRINT': brother_devaccs.c:1066: warning: unused parameter 'format' brother_devaccs.c: In function 'DBGPRINT': brother_devaccs.c:1067: warning: unused parameter 'format' brother_devaccs.c: In function 'get_semkey': brother_devaccs.c:1097: warning: comparison between signed and unsigned In file included from brother.c:88: brother_devinfo.c: In function 'QCommandProc': brother_devinfo.c:306: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 2 of 'WriteDeviceCommand' differ in signedness brother_devinfo.c:319: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 2 of 'ReadNonFixedData' differ in signedness brother_devinfo.c: In function 'QueryScanInfoProc': brother_devinfo.c:385: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 2 of 'WriteDeviceCommand' differ in signedness brother_devinfo.c:398: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 2 of 'ReadNonFixedData' differ in signedness In file included from brother.c:89: brother_mfccmd.c: In function 'SendCancelCommand': brother_mfccmd.c:82: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 2 of 'WriteDeviceCommand' differ in signedness In file included from brother.c:92: brother_scanner.c: In function 'ScanStart': brother_scanner.c:270: error: 'dev_handle' has no member named 'usb_w_ep' brother_scanner.c:272: error: 'dev_handle' has no member named 'usb_r_ep' brother_scanner.c:275: error: 'dev_handle' has no member named 'device' brother_scanner.c:276: error: 'dev_handle' has no member named 'usb' brother_scanner.c:276: warning: implicit declaration of function 'usb_open' brother_scanner.c:277: error: 'dev_handle' has no member named 'usb' brother_scanner.c:288: warning: implicit declaration of function 'usb_claim_interface' brother_scanner.c:288: error: 'dev_handle' has no member named 'usb' brother_scanner.c: In function 'PageScanStart': brother_scanner.c:509: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 2 of 'WriteDeviceCommand' differ in signedness brother_scanner.c:512: warning: implicit declaration of function 'sleep' brother_scanner.c:520: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 2 of 'WriteDeviceCommand' differ in signedness brother_scanner.c: In function 'StatusChk': brother_scanner.c:552: warning: pointer targets in initialization differ in signedness brother_scanner.c:562: warning: comparison is always false due to limited range of data type brother_scanner.c: In function 'PageScan': brother_scanner.c:1215: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of 'StatusChk' differ in signedness brother_scanner.c:1254: warning: comparison is always false due to limited range of data type brother_scanner.c:1296: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 4 of 'ProcessMain' differ in signedness brother_scanner.c: In function 'ReadTrash': brother_scanner.c:1559: error: 'dev_handle' has no member named 'device' brother_scanner.c:1560: error: 'dev_handle' has no member named 'usb' brother_scanner.c:1574: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 2 of 'read_device_net' differ in signedness brother_scanner.c: In function 'ScanEnd': brother_scanner.c:1652: error: 'dev_handle' has no member named 'device' brother_scanner.c:1653: error: 'dev_handle' has no member named 'usb' brother_scanner.c:1655: warning: implicit declaration of function 'usb_release_interface' brother_scanner.c:1655: error: 'dev_handle' has no member named 'usb' brother_scanner.c:1656: warning: implicit declaration of function 'usb_close' brother_scanner.c:1656: error: 'dev_handle' has no member named 'usb' brother_scanner.c:1657: error: 'dev_handle' has no member named 'usb' brother_scanner.c: In function 'ProcessMain': brother_scanner.c:2044: warning: comparison is always false due to limited range of data type brother_scanner.c:2087: warning: pointer targets in assignment differ in signedness brother_scanner.c:2124: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 2 of 'ExecColorMatchingFunc' differ in signedness In file included from brother.c:94: brother_log.c: In function 'WriteLogFileString': brother_log.c:152: warning: format '%03d' expects type 'int', but argument 6 has type 'long int' In file included from brother_netdev.c:29, from brother.c:96: /usr/include/unistd.h: At top level: /usr/include/unistd.h:405: error: conflicting types for 'sleep' brother_scanner.c:512: error: previous implicit declaration of 'sleep' was here In file included from brother.c:97: brother_advini.c:27:20: error: curses.h: No such file or directory brother.c: In function 'sane_brother_init': brother.c:463: warning: implicit declaration of function 'usb_init' brother.c:464: warning: implicit declaration of function 'usb_find_busses' brother.c:465: warning: implicit declaration of function 'usb_find_devices' brother.c:481: error: 'usb_busses' undeclared (first use in this function) brother.c:481: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once brother.c:481: error: for each function it appears in.) brother.c:488: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type brother.c:493: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type brother.c:494: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type brother.c:494: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type brother.c:500: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type brother.c:501: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type brother.c:519: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type brother.c:520: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type brother.c: In function 'sane_brother_open': brother.c:672: error: 'dev_handle' has no member named 'device' brother.c:675: error: 'dev_handle' has no member named 'device' brother.c:677: error: 'dev_handle' has no member named 'usb_w_ep' brother.c:679: error: 'dev_handle' has no member named 'usb_r_ep' brother.c:682: error: 'dev_handle' has no member named 'device' brother.c:683: error: 'dev_handle' has no member named 'net_device_index' brother.c:684: error: 'dev_handle' has no member named 'usb' brother.c:688: error: 'dev_handle' has no member named 'usb' brother.c:698: error: 'dev_handle' has no member named 'usb' brother.c:702: error: 'dev_handle' has no member named 'net_device_index' brother.c:768: error: 'dev_handle' has no member named 'device' brother.c:769: error: 'dev_handle' has no member named 'usb' brother.c:771: error: 'dev_handle' has no member named 'usb' brother.c:772: error: 'dev_handle' has no member named 'usb' brother.c:773: error: 'dev_handle' has no member named 'usb' brother.c: In function 'sane_brother_read': brother.c:1132: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 2 of 'PageScan' differ in signedness brother.c:1135: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 2 of 'PageScan' differ in signedness make[2]: *** [brother.lo] Fehler 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/brscan/backend_brscan' make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/brscan/backend_brscan' (cd netconfig && make brscan) make[1]: Entering directory `/root/brscan/netconfig' sh mk_brsaneconfig 1 gcc -DBRSANESUFFIX=1 -Wall -O0 -DMKCONFIG -idirafter ../backend_src -o brsaneconfig brsaneconfig.c ../backend_src/brother_advini.c brsaneconfig.c:25:20: error: curses.h: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden brsaneconfig.c: In function â?˜add_network_deviceâ?™: brsaneconfig.c:316: warning: the address of â?˜nodeâ?™ will always evaluate as â?˜trueâ?™ brsaneconfig.c:321: warning: the address of â?˜ipâ?™ will always evaluate as â?˜trueâ?™ brsaneconfig.c: In function â?˜query_available_modelsâ?™: brsaneconfig.c:423: warning: the address of â?˜nodeâ?™ will always evaluate as â?˜trueâ?™ brsaneconfig.c:426: warning: the address of â?˜ipâ?™ will always evaluate as â?˜trueâ?™ ../backend_src/brother_advini.c:27:20: error: curses.h: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden make[1]: *** [brsaneconfig] Fehler 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/brscan/netconfig' make: *** [brscan] Fehler 2

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You are missing the needed headers:

brother.c:40:17: error: usb.h: No such file or directory
brother_advini.c:27:20: error: curses.h: No such file or directory

Usb.h is in libusb-dev.
Curses.h should be in ncurses, get libncurses-dev.

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O.k. installed ncurses5-dev and libusb-dev. Still problems. Here is the output of the

sh command:

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(cached) yes checking for getpagesize... yes checking for working mmap... yes checking for atexit... yes checking for ioperm... no checking for mkdir... yes checking for scsireq_enter... no checking for sigprocmask... yes checking for strdup... yes checking for strndup... yes checking for strftime... yes checking for strstr... yes checking for strsep... yes checking for strtod... yes checking for snprintf... yes checking for cfmakeraw... yes checking for tcsendbreak... yes checking for usleep... yes checking for strcasecmp... yes checking for strncasecmp... yes checking for _portaccess... no checking for getenv... yes checking for isfdtype... yes checking for vsyslog... yes checking for inet_ntop... yes checking linker parameter to set runtime link path... -Wl,-rpath, checking for ranlib... ranlib checking for BSD-compatible nm... /usr/bin/nm -B checking whether ln -s works... yes checking host system type... powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu checking for object suffix... o checking for executable suffix... no checking for gcc option to produce PIC... -fPIC checking if gcc PIC flag -fPIC works... yes checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes checking if gcc supports -c -o file.lo... yes checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions ... no checking if gcc static flag -static works... -static checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes checking whether the linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output... ok checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU ld.so checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes checking whether to build shared libraries... yes checking whether to build static libraries... yes checking for objdir... .libs creating libtool disabling DC210/DC240 backends (failed to find JPEG library) disabling GPHOTO2 backend (not requested, or failed to find gphoto2-config or JPEG lib) disabling PINT backend disabling QuickCam backend enabling Video4Linux backend enabling NET backend enabling SM3600 backend enabling SnapScan backend scsi buffersize: 131072 checking for sane-config... no checking for sane_init in -lsane... no configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating Makefile config.status: creating lib/Makefile config.status: creating sanei/Makefile config.status: creating backend_brscan/Makefile config.status: creating backend_brscan2/Makefile config.status: creating include/Makefile config.status: creating po/Makefile config.status: creating include/sane/config.h **************************************************************** * Please be sure to read file PROBLEMS in this directory * * BEFORE running any of the SANE applications. Some devices * * may be damaged by inproper operation, so please do heed this * * advice. * ****************************************************************

And here is the output of the make all command:

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(cd backend_brscan && make brscan) make[1]: Entering directory `/root/brscan/backend_brscan' sh mk_backend release make libsane-brother make[2]: Entering directory `/root/brscan/backend_brscan' rm -f .libs/brother.lo gcc -c -g -O2 -W -Wall -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../include -I../include -I../libbrscandec -I../libbrcolm -D_GNU_SOURCE -DPATH_SANE_CONFIG_DIR=/usr/local/etc/sane.d -DPATH_SANE_DATA_DIR=/usr/local/share -DV_MAJOR=1 -DV_MINOR=0 -lpthread -DBRSANESUFFIX=1 -DBACKEND_NAME=brother -DLIBDIR=/usr/local/lib/sane brother.c -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/brother.lo In file included from brother.c:68: brother.h:307:1: warning: "MAX_PATH" redefined In file included from brother.h:59, from brother.c:68: brother_dtype.h:48:1: warning: this is the location of the previous definition In file included from brother.c:87: brother_devaccs.c: In function 'OpenDevice': brother_devaccs.c:348: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 2 of 'read_device_net' differ in signedness brother_devaccs.c:357: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 3 of 'usb_bulk_read' differ in signedness brother_devaccs.c:372: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 2 of 'WriteDeviceData' differ in signedness brother_devaccs.c: In function 'ReadDeviceData': brother_devaccs.c:568: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 3 of 'usb_bulk_read' differ in signedness brother_devaccs.c:576: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 2 of 'read_device_net' differ in signedness brother_devaccs.c: In function 'WriteDeviceData': brother_devaccs.c:861: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 2 of 'write_device_net' differ in signedness brother_devaccs.c:899: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 3 of 'usb_bulk_write' differ in signedness brother_devaccs.c: In function 'WriteDeviceCommand': brother_devaccs.c:943: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 2 of 'write_device_net' differ in signedness In file included from brother.c:87: brother_devaccs.c: In function 'ERRPRINT': brother_devaccs.c:1066: warning: unused parameter 'format' brother_devaccs.c: In function 'DBGPRINT': brother_devaccs.c:1067: warning: unused parameter 'format' brother_devaccs.c: In function 'get_semkey': brother_devaccs.c:1097: warning: comparison between signed and unsigned In file included from brother.c:88: brother_devinfo.c: In function 'QCommandProc': brother_devinfo.c:306: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 2 of 'WriteDeviceCommand' differ in signedness brother_devinfo.c:319: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 2 of 'ReadNonFixedData' differ in signedness brother_devinfo.c: In function 'QueryScanInfoProc': brother_devinfo.c:385: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 2 of 'WriteDeviceCommand' differ in signedness brother_devinfo.c:398: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 2 of 'ReadNonFixedData' differ in signedness In file included from brother.c:89: brother_mfccmd.c: In function 'SendCancelCommand': brother_mfccmd.c:82: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 2 of 'WriteDeviceCommand' differ in signedness In file included from brother.c:92: brother_scanner.c: In function 'PageScanStart': brother_scanner.c:509: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 2 of 'WriteDeviceCommand' differ in signedness brother_scanner.c:520: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 2 of 'WriteDeviceCommand' differ in signedness brother_scanner.c: In function 'StatusChk': brother_scanner.c:552: warning: pointer targets in initialization differ in signedness brother_scanner.c:562: warning: comparison is always false due to limited range of data type brother_scanner.c: In function 'PageScan': brother_scanner.c:1215: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of 'StatusChk' differ in signedness brother_scanner.c:1254: warning: comparison is always false due to limited range of data type brother_scanner.c:1296: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 4 of 'ProcessMain' differ in signedness brother_scanner.c: In function 'ReadTrash': brother_scanner.c:1565: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 3 of 'usb_bulk_read' differ in signedness brother_scanner.c:1574: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 2 of 'read_device_net' differ in signedness brother_scanner.c: In function 'ProcessMain': brother_scanner.c:2044: warning: comparison is always false due to limited range of data type brother_scanner.c:2087: warning: pointer targets in assignment differ in signedness brother_scanner.c:2124: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 2 of 'ExecColorMatchingFunc' differ in signedness In file included from brother.c:94: brother_log.c: In function 'WriteLogFileString': brother_log.c:152: warning: format '%03d' expects type 'int', but argument 6 has type 'long int' brother.c: In function 'sane_brother_read': brother.c:1132: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 2 of 'PageScan' differ in signedness brother.c:1135: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 2 of 'PageScan' differ in signedness brother_log.c: In function 'WriteLogFileString': brother_log.c:121: warning: 'dwStrLen' may be used uninitialized in this function gcc -c -g -O2 -W -Wall -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../include -I../include -I../libbrscandec -I../libbrcolm -D_GNU_SOURCE -DPATH_SANE_CONFIG_DIR=/usr/local/etc/sane.d -DPATH_SANE_DATA_DIR=/usr/local/share -DV_MAJOR=1 -DV_MINOR=0 -lpthread -DBRSANESUFFIX=1 -DBACKEND_NAME=brother -DLIBDIR=/usr/local/lib/sane brother.c -o brother.o >/dev/null 2>&1 mv -f .libs/brother.lo brother.lo rm -f brother-s.c ln -s ./stubs.c brother-s.c rm -f .libs/brother-s.lo gcc -c -g -O2 -W -Wall -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../include -I../include -I../libbrscandec -I../libbrcolm -D_GNU_SOURCE -DPATH_SANE_CONFIG_DIR=/usr/local/etc/sane.d -DPATH_SANE_DATA_DIR=/usr/local/share -DV_MAJOR=1 -DV_MINOR=0 -lpthread -DBRSANESUFFIX=1 -DSTUBS -DBACKEND_NAME=brother brother-s.c -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/brother-s.lo gcc -c -g -O2 -W -Wall -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../include -I../include -I../libbrscandec -I../libbrcolm -D_GNU_SOURCE -DPATH_SANE_CONFIG_DIR=/usr/local/etc/sane.d -DPATH_SANE_DATA_DIR=/usr/local/share -DV_MAJOR=1 -DV_MINOR=0 -lpthread -DBRSANESUFFIX=1 -DSTUBS -DBACKEND_NAME=brother brother-s.c -o brother-s.o >/dev/null 2>&1 mv -f .libs/brother-s.lo brother-s.lo rm -f .libs/sane_strstatus.lo gcc -c -g -O2 -W -Wall -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../include -I../include -I../libbrscandec -I../libbrcolm -D_GNU_SOURCE -DPATH_SANE_CONFIG_DIR=/usr/local/etc/sane.d -DPATH_SANE_DATA_DIR=/usr/local/share -DV_MAJOR=1 -DV_MINOR=0 -lpthread -DBRSANESUFFIX=1 -DBACKEND_NAME=sane_strstatus -DLIBDIR=/usr/local/lib/sane sane_strstatus.c -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/sane_strstatus.lo gcc -c -g -O2 -W -Wall -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../include -I../include -I../libbrscandec -I../libbrcolm -D_GNU_SOURCE -DPATH_SANE_CONFIG_DIR=/usr/local/etc/sane.d -DPATH_SANE_DATA_DIR=/usr/local/share -DV_MAJOR=1 -DV_MINOR=0 -lpthread -DBRSANESUFFIX=1 -DBACKEND_NAME=sane_strstatus -DLIBDIR=/usr/local/lib/sane sane_strstatus.c -o sane_strstatus.o >/dev/null 2>&1 mv -f .libs/sane_strstatus.lo sane_strstatus.lo rm -fr .libs/libsane-brother.la .libs/libsane-brother.* .libs/libsane-brother.* (cd ../sanei && ln -s sanei_init_debug.lo sanei_init_debug.o) (cd ../sanei && ln -s sanei_config.lo sanei_config.o) (cd ../lib && ln -s alloca.lo alloca.o) (cd ../lib && ln -s getenv.lo getenv.o) (cd ../lib && ln -s getopt.lo getopt.o) (cd ../lib && ln -s getopt1.lo getopt1.o) (cd ../lib && ln -s isfdtype.lo isfdtype.o) (cd ../lib && ln -s sigprocmask.lo sigprocmask.o) (cd ../lib && ln -s snprintf.lo snprintf.o) (cd ../lib && ln -s strdup.lo strdup.o) (cd ../lib && ln -s strndup.lo strndup.o) (cd ../lib && ln -s strsep.lo strsep.o) (cd ../lib && ln -s usleep.lo usleep.o) (cd ../lib && ln -s vsyslog.lo vsyslog.o) (cd ../lib && ln -s inet_ntop.lo inet_ntop.o) (cd ../sanei && ln -s sanei_constrain_value.lo sanei_constrain_value.o) gcc -shared brother.lo brother-s.lo sane_strstatus.lo ../sanei/sanei_init_debug.lo ../sanei/sanei_config.lo ../lib/alloca.lo ../lib/getenv.lo ../lib/getopt.lo ../lib/getopt1.lo ../lib/isfdtype.lo ../lib/sigprocmask.lo ../lib/snprintf.lo ../lib/strdup.lo ../lib/strndup.lo ../lib/strsep.lo ../lib/usleep.lo ../lib/vsyslog.lo ../lib/inet_ntop.lo ../sanei/sanei_constrain_value.lo -lpthread -lnsl -lusb -lm -ldl -lc -Wl,-soname -Wl,libsane.so.1 -o .libs/libsane-brother.so.1.0.7 /usr/bin/ld: ../sanei/sanei_init_debug.lo: Relocations in generic ELF (EM: 3) /usr/bin/ld: ../sanei/sanei_init_debug.lo: Relocations in generic ELF (EM: 3) /usr/bin/ld: ../sanei/sanei_init_debug.lo: Relocations in generic ELF (EM: 3) /usr/bin/ld: ../sanei/sanei_init_debug.lo: Relocations in generic ELF (EM: 3) /usr/bin/ld: ../sanei/sanei_init_debug.lo: Relocations in generic ELF (EM: 3) /usr/bin/ld: ../sanei/sanei_init_debug.lo: Relocations in generic ELF (EM: 3) ../sanei/sanei_init_debug.lo: could not read symbols: File in wrong format collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [libsane-brother.la] Fehler 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/brscan/backend_brscan' make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/brscan/backend_brscan' (cd netconfig && make brscan) make[1]: Entering directory `/root/brscan/netconfig' sh mk_brsaneconfig 1 gcc -DBRSANESUFFIX=1 -Wall -O0 -DMKCONFIG -idirafter ../backend_src -o brsaneconfig brsaneconfig.c ../backend_src/brother_advini.c brsaneconfig.c: In function â?˜add_network_deviceâ?™: brsaneconfig.c:316: warning: the address of â?˜nodeâ?™ will always evaluate as â?˜trueâ?™ brsaneconfig.c:321: warning: the address of â?˜ipâ?™ will always evaluate as â?˜trueâ?™ brsaneconfig.c: In function â?˜query_available_modelsâ?™: brsaneconfig.c:423: warning: the address of â?˜nodeâ?™ will always evaluate as â?˜trueâ?™ brsaneconfig.c:426: warning: the address of â?˜ipâ?™ will always evaluate as â?˜trueâ?™ make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/brscan/netconfig' (cd mk_package && make brscan) make[1]: Entering directory `/root/brscan/mk_package' make[1]: *** Keine Regel vorhanden, um das Target »../backend_brscan/.libs/libsane-brother.so.1.0.7«, benÃtigt von »brscan«, zu erstellen. Schluss. make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/brscan/mk_package' make: *** [brscan] Fehler 2

I have got the feeling there is libsane-brother missing... which might not be available as PPC Version ???

Ideas wellcome

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gerograph wrote: @NutsAboutAmiga O.k. I'll give it a try, but what makes you think this version (seems to be an older version than the sourcecode I found see link above) works, if the one "Geri" already compiled doesn't ?

...the one "Geri"...
It already was late at night yesterday, when I tried it and I overlooked the configure file. I planned to try it again in the next days.

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...the one "Geri"...

the one = the sourcecode Version you tried to compile. I did not try to compile the Version 0.2.4-4 (the one you did). I trie to compile 0.2.4-0 as forwarded my "nutsaboutamiga". Don't know wether that makes a difference. Your help "Geri" is more than welcome, thanx....
see you later

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gerograph wrote: @Geri the one = the sourcecode Version you tried to compile.

Phew!

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I did not try to compile the Version 0.2.4-4 (the one you did). I trie to compile 0.2.4-0 as forwarded my "nutsaboutamiga". Don't know wether that makes a difference. Your help "Geri" is more than welcome, thanx.... see you later

Probably not, but I think there's something missing in the source code archive (at least for the powerpc architecture). The configure script tried to create a Makefile in backend_brscan using Makefile.in, but the directory doesn't even exist. Some links to source code files are invalid, too.

Also I wonder what this note means: "Library libbrcolm and libbrsanedec in the scanner driver source codes are not available." It sounds, as if these were proprietary libraries, which cannot be recompiled for powerpc!?

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