On 9/28/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Martin Lefebvre</b> <<a href="mailto:dadexter@sekurity.com">dadexter@sekurity.com</a>> wrote:<div><snip><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> On 9/28/07, Martin Lefebvre <<a href="mailto:dadexter@sekurity.com">dadexter@sekurity.com</a>> wrote:<br>> <snip a duplicate mail header><br>><br>> > > On 9/28/07, Martin Lefebvre <<a href="mailto:dadexter@sekurity.com">
dadexter@sekurity.com</a>> wrote:<br>><br>> <snip most of another mail header><br>><br>> > > > > Subject: Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Slack 12 libgnomecups pkg has no<br>> > more<br>> > > > than
<br>> > > > > a docs folder<br>> > > > ><br>> > > > > On 9/28/07, Martin Lefebvre <<a href="mailto:dadexter@sekurity.com">dadexter@sekurity.com</a>> wrote:<br>> > >
<br>> > > <snip query "how to log"><br>> ><br>> <snip my log method><br>> <snip log files from my build><br>><br>> you don't have cups installed:<br>> ><br>
> > /usr/lib/gcc/i486-slackware-linux/4.1.2/../../../../i486-slackware-linux/bin/ld:<br>> > cannot find -lcups<br>> > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status<br>> ><br>> > did you not do a full install of slackware?
<br>><br>> I Did do a full install.<br>><br>> al@AB60R:/var/log/packages$ lsg cups<br>> cups-1.2.11-i486-1<br>> al@AB60R:/var/log/packages$<br>><br>> /usr/lib/cups<br>><br>> a bunch of folders are under that.
<br>><br>> cups *is* installed. But it's not running (the exec bit is *not* on rc.cups<br>> ).<br>><br>> I start cups manually only when I need to print. It (cups) works fine with<br>> several print servers inkjet printers on my network. Again, printing,
<br>> (using cups) *works_fine*.<br></blockquote><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">your paths might be foobared... do you have any files when you ls
<br>/usr/lib/libcups*?</blockquote><div><br>root@AB60R:/home/al/install/pkgs_sw12/abiword_n_dep_libs# ls /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></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I built libgnomecups this morning after reading your message, and it built<br>
just fine... </blockquote><div><br>Maybe it doesn't like a certain kind of ions that are in the air near my computer :-)<br> </div><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 at the cups on my sys. They look the same. I don't detect any difference. It appears that nothing is wrong with my cups.
<br><br>I just DL and installed Robby's Abiword and dependencies packages. Abiword works fine (not yet tried to print via Abiword). Again, printing works fine from Kword and Firefox as well as the print a test page from within cups itself (3 ways that I've printed so far).
<br><br>I don't need to build *everything*.<br><br>If there's any more that I can do, let me know. Problem solved, I used someone else's packages.<br></div><br>-- <br>Alan.<br><br>