[cups.development] Error while compiling gutenprint

Gernot Hassenpflug ha4h-grnt at asahi-net.or.jp
Sun May 27 23:31:34 PDT 2012


Kemal Gencay <kemalgencay at gmail.com> writes:

(could not find attribution for Helge in message)

> > The last version of gutenprint I compiled was 2.5.6 (two stepw behind), and
> > configure reported - as in your case - "Checking for db2pdf...  no" and then
> > skipped making the documentation with the error message
> > No db2pdf: cannot build documentation!
> >
> > So, unless you want to wait for a bug fix from the maintainers, I guess you
> > need to edit your Makefiles "by hand" to skip building the documentation
> > (or install all the various docbook packages - I don't know wich of those
> > are really contain the db2xxx utilities you need).
> >
> > Sorry,
> >
> > Helge
> >
> >
> Thanks I think I'll ask Gernot, the maker of gutenprint to make (if possible) a make file without the db2... bit !!

For the record: I am the maintainer of the Canon backend of the gutenprint project.
-- 
Gernot Hassenpflug





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