installing new version of sane

I have a Microtek 3600 usb scanner. It is recognized by sane from version 1.0.5, that's installed by default from SuSE PPC 7.3. I have to load the modules "microtek" and "scanner" manually, after this YaST2 has understand where is my scanner, but it doesn't load the right driver. So I thought that the version of sane is not the right version: I download the new package of sane (1.0.7) tar.gz. I tried to install it (./configure, make and make install), but without result. Make command has a lot of errors and doesn't compile correctly the software. Has anyone experienced this problem and found a solution? Thanks in advance salvatore