cupstestppd: confusion about the "-R" option

[Michael Sweet]

On Oct 2, 2009, at 1:16 PM, Kennedy, Smith (Macintosh Software - IPG  
MCT) wrote:
> Hello,
>
> For whatever reason, I cannot seem to figure out how to get the "-R"
> option to work with cupstestppd, to have it look in an alternate
> root.  If I have a PPD named "foo.gz" that specifies a cupsFilter "/
> usr/libexec/cups/filter/foofilter", and I have a local directory where
> I have built foofilter like so:
>
> /home/smitty/build/usr/libexec/cups/filter/foofilter
>
> then I was expecting that if I typed in this:
>
> cupstestppd -R /home/smitty/build foo.gz
>
> that it would prepend any paths found with "/home/smitty/build/" and
> search there.  But it doesn't seem to do that.  So how is this
> argument supposed to work?  It is never covered in the examples.

That should work - are you using CUPS 1.4.x or the old standalone DDK?

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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer