install newer cups version on OsX?

[Matt Broughton]

In article <21482-cups.general at news.easysw.com>,
 Michael Sweet <mike at easysw.com> wrote:

> Matt Broughton wrote:
> > In article <21479-cups.general at news.easysw.com>,
> >  Michael Sweet <mike at easysw.com> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>Maak wrote:
> >>
> >>>Hi,
> >>>
> >>>is it possible to install a newer version of cups on mac os x? In
> >>>10.3.9, there's still version 1.1 running...
> >>
> >>Technically, yes, however you may run into problems since the OSX
> >>version has some divergence from the main code tree...
> > 
> > 
> > There are also differences in where some items are installed.  For 
> > example, OS X places items in /usr/bin instead of the default /bin; 
> > /usr/include instead of /include; /usr/libexec/cups instead of 
> > /libexec/cups; etc.
> 
> Actually, no, that's not how it is at all.
> 
> The default is /usr/include, /usr/bin, etc.  OSX is BSD-based, so
> the serverbin directory defaults to /usr/libexec/cups, but the
> standard configure script handles that already.
> 
> The main differences are in the scheduler and the mDNS/Zeroconf
> stuff they have added; I hope to get that integrated into CUPS 1.2,
> so we'll be more in sync...  Also, Apple's standard filter set is
> different than CUPS...

OOOPS.  My sincere apologies.  I really missed on that one.  I had done 
a test install to a "test" directory at the root level to more easily 
compare the file differences between the standard install and what OS X 
does.  By adding "--prefix=/testinstall" to the ./configure command, the 
resulting paths misled me.  I see by the config.log for a straight 
compile that things are indeed as you indicate and as Apple installs 
them.

Again my apologies for posting misinformation.

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Matt Broughton
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