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@cactusd do you plan to maintain this package? There's a pending orphan request

Using the updated PKGBUILD provided by dreieck causes the build to fail with configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables See `config.log' for more details. ==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().

CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:1 (cmake_minimum_required):
Compatibility with CMake < 3.5 has been removed from CMake.

Update the VERSION argument <min> value.  Or, use the <min>...<max> syntax
to tell CMake that the project requires at least <min> but has been updated
to work with policies introduced by <max> or earlier.
Or, add -DCMAKE_POLICY_VERSION_MINIMUM=3.5 to try configuring anyway.

Fixed PKGBUILD, also with added provides and conflicts entries:

# Maintainer: Tobias Powalowski <tpowa@archlinux.org>
# Contributor: Sarah Hay <sarahhay@mb.sympatico.ca>

pkgname=sane-frontends
pkgver=1.0.14
pkgrel=10
pkgdesc="A set of frontends for SANE."
arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
url="http://www.sane-project.org"
license=('GPL-2.0-or-later')
depends=(
  'sane'
  'glibc'
  'libgobject-2.0.so'
  'libglib-2.0.so'
  'libgdk-x11-2.0.so'
  'libgtk-x11-2.0.so'
)
makedepends=(
  'gtk2'
  'glib2'
)
provices=(
  "scanadf=${pkgver}"
  "xcam=${pkgver}"
  "xscanimage=${pkgver}"
)
conflicts=(
  "scanadf"
  "xcam"
  "xscanimage"
)
source=("https://alioth-archive.debian.org/releases/sane/sane-frontends/${pkgver}/sane-frontends-${pkgver}.tar.gz" MissingCapsFlag.patch)
md5sums=('c63bf7b0bb5f530cf3c08715db721cd3' '770f66e0534953f6129e1fc03d88ae01')

build() {
  cd "$srcdir/$pkgname-$pkgver"

  _CFLAGSADDITIONS='-Wno-implicit-function-declaration -Wno-error=implicit-function-declaration -Wno-builtin-declaration-mismatch -Wno-error=builtin-declaration-mismatch -Wno-incompatible-pointer-types -Wno-error=incompatible-pointer-types -Wno-return-type -Wno-error=return-type -Wno-switch -Wno-error=switch -Wno-deprecated-declarations -Wno-error=deprecated-declarations -Wno-unused-but-set-variable -Wno-error=unused-but-set-variable -Wno-pointer-sign -Wno-error=pointer-sign -Wno-unused-result -Wno-error=unused-result -Wno-format -Wno-error=format -Wno-unused-function -Wno-error=unused-function -Wno-stringop-overflow -Wno-error=stringop-overflow'
  CFLAGS+=" ${_CFLAGSADDITIONS}"
  export CFLAGS

  patch -p0 < ../MissingCapsFlag.patch
  ./configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --enable-guis --enable-gtk2 --disable-gimp --disable-gimp12
  make
}

package() {
  cd "$srcdir/$pkgname-$pkgver"
  make DESTDIR="$pkgdir" install
}

diff:

--- PKGBUILD.orig   2026-07-19 23:31:45.109618721 +0200
+++ PKGBUILD    2026-07-19 23:37:44.266271367 +0200
@@ -5,8 +5,29 @@
 pkgver=1.0.14
-pkgrel=9
+pkgrel=10
 pkgdesc="A set of frontends for SANE."
-arch=(x86_64)
+arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
 url="http://www.sane-project.org"
-license=('GPL')
-depends=('sane' 'gimp' 'libjpeg')
+license=('GPL-2.0-or-later')
+depends=(
+  'sane'
+  'glibc'
+  'libgobject-2.0.so'
+  'libglib-2.0.so'
+  'libgdk-x11-2.0.so'
+  'libgtk-x11-2.0.so'
+)
+makedepends=(
+  'gtk2'
+  'glib2'
+)
+provices=(
+  "scanadf=${pkgver}"
+  "xcam=${pkgver}"
+  "xscanimage=${pkgver}"
+)
+conflicts=(
+  "scanadf"
+  "xcam"
+  "xscanimage"
+)
 source=("https://alioth-archive.debian.org/releases/sane/sane-frontends/${pkgver}/sane-frontends-${pkgver}.tar.gz" MissingCapsFlag.patch)
@@ -16,4 +37,9 @@
   cd "$srcdir/$pkgname-$pkgver"
+
+  _CFLAGSADDITIONS='-Wno-implicit-function-declaration -Wno-error=implicit-function-declaration -Wno-builtin-declaration-mismatch -Wno-error=builtin-declaration-mismatch -Wno-incompatible-pointer-types -Wno-error=incompatible-pointer-types -Wno-return-type -Wno-error=return-type -Wno-switch -Wno-error=switch -Wno-deprecated-declarations -Wno-error=deprecated-declarations -Wno-unused-but-set-variable -Wno-error=unused-but-set-variable -Wno-pointer-sign -Wno-error=pointer-sign -Wno-unused-result -Wno-error=unused-result -Wno-format -Wno-error=format -Wno-unused-function -Wno-error=unused-function -Wno-stringop-overflow -Wno-error=stringop-overflow'
+  CFLAGS+=" ${_CFLAGSADDITIONS}"
+  export CFLAGS
+
   patch -p0 < ../MissingCapsFlag.patch
-  ./configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man
+  ./configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --enable-guis --enable-gtk2 --disable-gimp --disable-gimp12
   make

Regards!

libjpeg*-dependency also seems that it can be dropped completely.

gimp plugin is no longer built (too new gimp version). gimp can thus be removed from depends array.

gtk2 needs to be added, though.

You need to add

  _CFLAGSADDITIONS='-Wno-implicit-function-declaration -Wno-error=implicit-function-declaration -Wno-builtin-declaration-mismatch -Wno-error=builtin-declaration-mismatch -Wno-incompatible-pointer-types -Wno-error=incompatible-pointer-types -Wno-return-type -Wno-error=return-type -Wno-switch -Wno-error=switch -Wno-deprecated-declarations -Wno-error=deprecated-declarations -Wno-unused-but-set-variable -Wno-error=unused-but-set-variable -Wno-pointer-sign -Wno-error=pointer-sign -Wno-unused-result -Wno-error=unused-result -Wno-format -Wno-error=format -Wno-unused-function -Wno-error=unused-function -Wno-stringop-overflow -Wno-error=stringop-overflow'
  CFLAGS+=" ${_CFLAGSADDITIONS}"
  export CFLAGS

to build() to mitigate the previously reported ./configure error and subsequent errors in further build process.

Trying to build this fails for me with

[...]
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking for sane-config... /usr/bin/sane-config
checking for SANE - version >= 1.0.0... no
*** Could not run SANE test program, checking why...
*** The test program compiled, but did not run. This usually means
*** that the run-time linker is not finding SANE or finding the wrong
*** version of SANE. If it is not finding SANE, you'll need to set your
*** LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable, or edit /etc/ld.so.conf to point
*** to the installed location.  Also, make sure you have run ldconfig if that
*** is required on your system.
***
*** If you have an old version installed, it is best to remove it, although
*** you may also be able to get things to work by modifying LD_LIBRARY_PATH
***
**********************************************************************
ERROR: Couldn't find SANE libraries (sane-backends). Possible reasons:
     - sane-backends isn't installed (install sane-backends before
       sane-frontends)
     - the SANE header files aren't installed (if you installed
       SANE as RPM make sure you also included the sane-devel RPM)
     - the SANE libraries can't be found because /usr/local/lib/ isn't
       searched by the dynamic linker (see INSTALL for details)
**********************************************************************

make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().

Package sane version 1.4.0-4 is installed.

Regards!

libjpeg-turbo does no longer provide libjpeg.

Please change dependency libjpeg to libjpeg.so, and add libjpeg-turbo to makedepends array.

Regards and thanks for maintaining!