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+Shared libraries doesn't seem to work with sane-backends and NetBSD. One
+reason may be the old libtool used in the sane distribution.
+
+To use static libraries:
+
+./configure --disable-shared
+
+Otherwise, compilation should work out-of-the-box.
+
+sane-frontends is untested.
+
+Last changed: 2002-02-02
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