Rebuilding Canon CanoScan LiDE 400 application

My attempts to re-install a Xerox driver for the Dell C1740NW color laser
printer FUBAR'd my system. I removed the driver and rebooted; I think that
cleared out the problems caused by the Xerox driver.

Now I need to rebuild the application for my Canon CanoScan LiDE 400
scanner. Canon provides source code in addition to .deb and .rpm files.

The install instructions say that the prefix and libpath can be specified so
my command was $ ./autogen.sh --prefix /usr/bin --enable-libpath /usr/lib64
... the result is:
Running autoconf ...
Running ./configure --enable-maintainer-mode --prefix /usr/bin --enable-libpath /usr/lib64 ...
configure: WARNING: you should use --build, --host, --target
configure: WARNING: invalid host type: /usr/lib64
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/ginstall -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /usr/bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether make supports nested variables... yes
checking build system type... Invalid configuration `/usr/lib64': machine `/usr/lib64' not recognized
configure: error: /bin/sh ./config.sub /usr/lib64 failed

Why might the script not recognize the existance of /usr/lib64?

TIA,

Rich

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