On 9/28/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Martin Lefebvre</b> <<a href="mailto:dadexter@sekurity.com">dadexter@sekurity.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 08:54:16PM -0700, Alan C wrote:<br><br>> > your paths might be foobared... do you have any files when you ls<br>> > /usr/lib/libcups*?<br>><br>><br>> root@AB60R:/home/al/install/pkgs_sw12/abiword_n_dep_libs# ls
<br>> /usr/lib/libcups*<br>> /usr/lib/libcups.so.2* /usr/lib/libcupsimage.so.2*<br>> root@AB60R:/home/al/install/pkgs_sw12/abiword_n_dep_libs#<br>><br><br>I have 4 files:<br>/usr/lib/libcups.so /usr/lib/libcupsimage.so
<br>/usr/lib/libcups.so.2 /usr/lib/libcupsimage.so.2<br><br>you are missing libcups.so and libcupsimage.so.<br><br>the ones you have missing are symlinks... as I'm pretty sure you don't run<br>ls in a way to not display symlinks, I would recommend reinstalling cups,
<br>just so the symlinks are created properly<br><br>> Maybe it doesn't like a certain kind of ions that are in the air near my<br>> computer :-)<br><br>it might... do you have any windows CDs or partitions around? the viruses
<br>and bugs could be airborne :P</blockquote><div><br>Oh no, I have a Windows box within a foot and a half of my Slack 12 box. And I have a Win 2K SP4 in Qemu on this Slack 12 box (no Win partition on this Slack 12 box but there is the Qemu Win 2K image file) (Slack now gets a filtered breather in the case of any airborne things)
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">><br>> <a href="ftp://slackware.mirrors.tds.net/pub/slackware/slackware-12.0/slackware/a/cups-1.2.11-i486-1.tgz">
ftp://slackware.mirrors.tds.net/pub/slackware/slackware-12.0/slackware/a/cups-1.2.11-i486-1.tgz</a><br>><br>> I just DL that cups pkg and looked inside it. I also used pkgtool to look<br>> at the cups on my sys. They look the same. I don't detect any difference.
<br>> It appears that nothing is wrong with my cups.<br>><br><br>the symlinks you "appear" to be missing wouldn't show in the package, they<br>are created by the doinst.sh file as part of the package installation
<br>process.<br></blockquote><div><snip> <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Technically, once a binary is linked on a "working system", the fact that
<br>some symlinks are missing might not be an issue... but they might be<br>required for the linking process when you try to compile the program.</blockquote><div><br>They must be required in this case because (as shared next) the pkg now builds just fine without any problem.
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">so, to answer your original question, it's something specific to your box.
</blockquote><div><br>Yep.<br><br>It *was* the two missing symlinks that you reported. (I uninstalled then installed cups again). And, now:<br><br>sh-3.1# ls -la /usr/lib/libcups*<br>lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 2007-09-28 22:13 /usr/lib/libcups.so ->
libcups.so.2<br>-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 161028 2007-05-09 14:28 /usr/lib/libcups.so.2<br>lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 2007-09-28 22:13 /usr/lib/libcupsimage.so -> libcupsimage.so.2<br>-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 72048 2007-05-09 14:28 /usr/lib/libcupsimage.so.2
<br><br>Now the pkg builds just fine. Hmm, maybe others are miss the two symlinks too (AFAIK I did nothing to cause them to be gone/missing).<br><br>My pkg size<br><br>111,804 b<br><br>113,575 b <br><br>Robby Workman's pkg size (libgnomecups)
<br><br>I wonder why the sizes are slightly different between those two libgnomecups?<br></div></div><br>-- <br>Alan.<br><br>