Building on Debian wheezy fails with error

[fmitha]

I'm seeing the following error when attempting to build using the master branch on Debian wheezy. I start with:

faheem@orwell:/usr/local/src/iscan/iscan$ git branch 
* (detached from origin/master)
  iscan-2.29.1-5
faheem@orwell:/usr/local/src/iscan/iscan$ git status
# HEAD detached at origin/master
nothing to commit, working directory clean
faheem@orwell:/usr/local/src/iscan/iscan$ debuild -uc -us
This package has a Debian revision number but there does not seem to be
an appropriate original tar file or .orig directory in the parent directory;
(expected one of iscan_2.29.3.orig.tar.gz, iscan_2.29.3.orig.tar.bz2,
iscan_2.29.3.orig.tar.lzma,  iscan_2.29.3.orig.tar.xz or iscan.orig)
continue anyway? (y/n)

The error is

make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/iscan/iscan'
cd . && /bin/bash /usr/local/src/iscan/iscan/missing --run aclocal-1.10 -I m4
configure.ac:273: error: unknown libltdl build type: _LTDL_TYPE
/usr/share/aclocal/ltdl.m4:226: LTDL_INIT is expanded from...
/usr/share/aclocal/ltdl.m4:352: AC_LIB_LTDL is expanded from...
configure.ac:273: the top level
autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
aclocal-1.10: autom4te failed with exit status: 1
make[1]: *** [aclocal.m4] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/iscan/iscan'

Suggestions for fixing or even a confirmation this can be reproduced would be helpful.

Regards, Faheem

[fmitha]

I can add a build log if you want. I'll need to put it somewhere else, because github does not seem to allow attaching files.

[hean01]

Hi, Put it on http://pastebin.com and share the link... and ill take a look at it

[hean01]

Im not a debian user, but it looks like you need a tarball of the source, create one with make dist.

[fmitha]

Hi Henrik,

Thank you for the quick reply, Here is the build log. I don't think that not having a tarball is the problem, but I'll experiment and report back. Incidentally, is this an unofficial fork of the Epson code? I've also posted on this problem on unix.sx. I might also try the autotools list. The problem should be easy to reproduce on Debian, if you have a virtual machine or something.

Regards, Faheem

[fmitha]

Running make dist from a clean checkout gives

faheem@orwell:/usr/local/src/iscan/iscan$ make dist
make: *** No rule to make target `dist'.  Stop.

If I attempt to run that after debuild -uc -us has exited with the error above, I just get the same error.

[hean01]

Yes this is unofficial fork of iscan with some fixes for scanning 16bit at high resolution, see commit log for more info..

[fmitha]

BTW, where are you getting the sources from? Epson does not make it easy.to find the sources.