[cups-devel] Undefined symbols in cups and ipptool

Michael Sweet msweet at apple.com
Wed Apr 25 14:42:53 PDT 2018


Akash,

It is possible that the libdir setting is wrong and libcups.2.dylib is getting installed in the wrong location - if you do a "find /usr -name libcups.2.dylib" where does it report finding files?



> On Apr 25, 2018, at 5:09 PM, Akash Sharma <akashs.delhi at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> I created a new virtual machine ( ubuntu 17.10 Desktop image ) and tried to
> build cups2.3b4 in it from source and am facing errors suddenly. Earlier
> while working with cups i did not encounter such errors.
> 
> I took the following steps ( as per install.md ) :
> sudo apt-get install autoconf build-essential libavahi-client-dev \
>     libgnutls28-dev libkrb5-dev libnss-mdns libpam-dev \
>     libsystemd-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev zlib1g-dev
> 
> ./configure
> make
> make check
> sudo make install
> 
> Ghostscript is already installed on my system.
> On restarting cups, its status showed a symbol undefined error. On googling
> i found that the error could be because of faulty linking, etc, but was
> unable to correct the same.
> Also, ipptool failed to run due to an undefined symbol error. ( Although i
> found related definitions in the source )
> 
> Can you please guide me on how can i solve these errors?
> 
> The output of the building cups2.3b4 has been attached in the file
> buildOutput.txt. The ending of the file contains errors corresponding to
> cups and ipptool.
> ( Also please let me know in case there is something i must keep in mind
> while writing a mail to the mailing list  )
> 
> Thanking You,
> Regards,
> Akash Sharma
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