Make error on Solaris 10 w/ cups 1.1.23

[Michael Sweet]

Helge Blischke wrote:
> Anonymous wrote:
>>> sleepy wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> We are running Solaris 10 on SPARC technology, and the box in question is an ULTRA5 workstation.  I have a fresh install of Solaris 10, and am attempting to install cups 1.1.23, which I downloaded from cups.org.
>>>>
>>>> Solaris 10 comes with cups 1.1.21 installed, and I have renamed the cups folder inside /opt/sfw to cups.old so as not to overwrite it when compiling the new package.
>>>>
>>>> The configure runs just fine, and I have specified the /opt/sfw/cups folder using the --prefix= option.  The problem comes up about 1/2 way through the make command, when the process attempts to compile testhttp.
>>>>
>>>> The terminal output is as follows:
>>>>
>>>> Compiling testhttp.c...
>>>> Linking testhttp...
>>>> Undefined                       first referenced
>>>>  symbol                             in file
>>>> gnutls_set_default_priority         libcups.a(http.o)
>>>> gnutls_certificate_free_credentials libcups.a(http.o)
>>>> gnutls_init                         libcups.a(http.o)
>>>> gnutls_record_send                  libcups.a(http.o)
>>>> gnutls_record_recv                  libcups.a(http.o)
>>>> gnutls_record_check_pending         libcups.a(http.o)
>>>> gnutls_credentials_set              libcups.a(http.o)
>>>> gnutls_global_init                  libcups.a(http.o)
>>>> gnutls_bye                          libcups.a(http.o)
>>>> gnutls_deinit                       libcups.a(http.o)
>>>> gnutls_transport_set_ptr            libcups.a(http.o)
>>>> gnutls_certificate_allocate_credentials libcups.a(http.o)
>>>> gnutls_handshake                    libcups.a(http.o)
>>>> ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to testhttp
>>>> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>>>> *** Error code 1
>>>> The following command caused the error:
>>>> gcc -L../cups -L../filter   -R/opt/sfw/cups/lib -Wall -fPIC -O2 -o testhttp testhttp.o libcups.a -lsocket -lnsl
>>>> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `testhttp'
>>>> Current working directory /local/cups-1.1.23/cups
>>>> *** Error code 1
>>>> The following command caused the error:
>>>> for dir in cups backend berkeley cgi-bin filter man pdftops  scheduler systemv; do\
>>>>         echo Making all in $dir... ;\
>>>>         (cd $dir ; make ) || exit 1;\
>>>> done
>>>> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all'
>>>>
>>>> I am not sure where to go from here...please advise with any comments, questions, etc.  Any advice is welcomed!
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>>
>>>> sleepy
>>> It seems that configure fails to recognize that the GNU TLS stuff is not installed (it isn't by default
>>> on Solaris whatsoever)).
>>> As a workaround, run configure with the option
>>>       --disable_gnutls
>>> and try again.
>>>
>>> Helge
>>>
>>> --
>>> Helge Blischke
>>> Softwareentwicklung
>>> SRZ Berlin | Firmengruppe besscom
>>> http://www.srz.de
>> Helge,
>>
>> Thank you so much for the reply!!  Your suggestion worked, and cups 1.1.23 is now compiled and installed on Solaris 10.  :)
>>
>> Just to clarify one thing in case someone copy/pastes your suggestion...the actual syntax for the configure option is
>>
>> --disable-gnutls with a hyphen and not an underscore...
>>
>> Thanks again,
>>
>> sleepy
> 
> Yes, you are right - just a typo. But you might file a STR on this issue, as an older version of
> CUPS (1.1.19) recognized by itself (the configure script) that the gnutls stuff is not implemented
> on Solaris (9 in this case). Perhaps the test for this stuff got lost somewhere in between...

*BEOFRE* you file a STR, please test the current CUPS 1.2 snapshot.
Compile problems reported against 1.1.x will be referred to the 1.2
code since we will not be doing another 1.1.x release.

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