install newer cups version on OsX?

Matt Broughton walterwego at macosx.com.invalid
Tue May 31 17:01:37 PDT 2005


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.

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Matt Broughton
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