Re: [hpoj-devel] Working with SANE and FreeBSD 4.2

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Stan Barber wrote:
> I was able to take hpoj-0.7 and get it to work pretty much out of the box
> with a network connected officejet G 85. I am delighted about this.
> 
> I have not tried to print yet as I have a priting solution I am currently
> happy with, but I will want to come back when there is a fax solution of some
> kind.
Hi, Stan.  Thanks for the success report.

Just out of curiosity, what version of 'make' do you have on your system?
A while back I tried to compile the development code in CVS on SourceForge's
FreeBSD compile farm box, and ran into lots of problems, mostly due to the
fact that they were using a non-GNU version of 'make', which choked on a lot
of constructs in the makefiles that seem to be GNU-specific extensions.
Eventually I plan to resolve these problems so that the software is as fully
functional as possible on FreeBSD and possibly other BSDs.

Since you mentioned you wanted a fax solution, do you have any thoughts on
what kind of solution you might want and how you might want to go about
interacting with it?  I should note that the G series doesn't support
receiving faxes to the PC AFAIK, so you'll be limited to sending faxes.
I need to do some research on existing fax solutions, such as HylaFax, to
see how they work and whether it would make sense to leverage their
functionality and integrate OfficeJet faxing with them, as was the case with
ghostscript and SANE, or whether I should develop something from scratch,
as was the case with the scanning part of ptal-hp (in CVS). 

Also, it would be greatly appreciated if you don't mind trying out current
development code in CVS on FreeBSD from time to time.  Eventually it will
become version 0.8, and it will be so much the better with feedback on the
development code.

David