sane-config(1)

✨ sane-config — the manual page, bestie edition ✨

okay so real quick, this is a page from the SANE Scanner Access Now Easy manual, section 1 (that's the user commands section, iykyk). It's all about sane-config, the little cutie that tells you how to build stuff against libsane. Let's get into it 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

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

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

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

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So sane-config is literally that girl who knows everything about your build setup. It's a tool you use to figure out the compiler and linker flags you need when you want to compile and link SANE frontends to a SANE backend library (that's libsane, bestie 💖).

Basically: you ask it stuff, it tells you the flags. Periodt.

✨ OPTIONS ✨

Real talk though — you can't use more than one option at the same time. One at a time, queen. 🙈

• --version — prints the currently installed version of libsane right to the standard output. iconic.
• --help OPTION — prints a short usage message. and if you pass an OPTION in there (like --libs), it'll print help for that option instead (if it's available). so helpful fr fr 🫶
• --libs — prints the additional libraries you need to link a SANE frontend to libsane. the extra squad members 💜
• --ldflags — prints the linker flags necessary to link a SANE frontend to libsane. linker bestie ✨
• --cflags — prints the compiler flags necessary to compile a SANE frontend. compiler bestie 🌸
• --prefix — prints the prefix that was used during compilation of libsane. the origin story 🎀
• --exec-prefix — prints the exec-prefix used during compilation of libsane. the other origin story 👑

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• sane(7)

👑 AUTHOR 👑

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

and that's the whole thing, bestie! this page is from the SANE Scanner Access Now Easy manual, dated 10 Jul 2008 — yeah, she's a vintage queen but she still ate. mwah 💖