sane-config

Section: SANE Scanner Access Now Easy (1)
Updated: 15 October 2002
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NAME

sane-config - get information about the installed version of libsane

SYNOPSIS

sane-config [--prefix] [--exec-prefix] [--libs] [--cflags] [--ldflags] [--version] [--help [OPTION]]

DESCRIPTION

sane-config is a tool that is used to determine the compiler and linker flags that should be used to compile and link SANE frontends to a SANE backend library (libsane).

OPTIONS

sane-config accepts the following options:

--version: Print the currently installed version of libsane on the standard output.
--help OPTION: Print a short usage message. If OPTION is specified, help for that option (e.g. --libs) is printed (if available).
--libs: Print the additional libraries that are necessary to link a SANE frontend to libsane.
--ldflags: Print the linker flags that are necessary to link a SANE frontend to libsane.
--cflags: Print the compiler flags that are necessary to compile a SANE frontend.
--prefix: Print the prefix used during compilation of libsane.
--exec-prefix: Print the exec-prefix used during compilation of libsane.

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Julien BLACHE <jblache@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

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