Trying to debug a printerdriver..

[Michael Sweet]

Johan Henselmans wrote:
> Michael Sweet wrote:
>> Johan Henselmans wrote:
>>> ...
>>> Now my theory would be that I would call:
>>> /usr/lib64/cups/filter/texttops job-id johan title 1 options 
>>> rastertoboca.c | /usr/lib64/cups/filter/pstoraster | ./rastertoboca | 
>>> less
>>>
>>> and would see the debug output. Alas, I only see DEBUG2 output from 
>>> the previous steps. What am I doing wrong? Did I miss something?
>>
>> You'll want to send stdout to a file and pipe stderr into less (or
>> just redirect stderr to a file and less/more it afterwards)
>>
>> Also, make sure you set the PPD environment variable to the PPD file
>> for your driver so the filters know what kind of raster data to
>> produce.
>>
> 
> 
> OK, here's what I did:
> export PPD=/usr/share/cups/model/bocafgl44mini
> 
> /usr/lib64/cups/filter/texttops 1 johan test 1 options rastertoboca.c  | 
> /usr/lib64/cups/filter/pstops | /usr/lib64/cups/filter/pstoraster | 
> ./rastertoboca >testfile 2>errfile
> 
> The error I got was: ERROR: rastertoboca job-id user title copies 
> options [file]
> 
> Somehow the redirection does not work properly: I am getting:
> 
> ppp10:/usr/local/src/cups-1.1.23/filter # cat errfile
> ERROR: rastertoboca job-id user title copies options [file]
> 
> So apparently there is an error in the passing of arguments. What am I 
> doing wrong?

Add "1 johan test 1 options" to your rastertoboca command, too! :)

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