CUPS & Ghostscript

[Martin]

It's missing the CUPS libs.

Change Makefile the line

EXTRALIBS=
to
EXTRALIBS=-lcupsimage -lcups

/Martin

> Hi !!!
>
> first of all, thanks for the help.
>
> I started all over .... from  a RH 9 installation, without having any
> printing related stuff..
>
> A clipping from my history  follows to show you what I have done...
>
> cd /downloads
> tar -xvjf cups-1.1.20-source.tar.bz2
> cd cups-1.1.20
> ./configure
> make
> make install
> cd ..
> tar -xvjf  ghostscript-7.07.tar.bz2
> cd ghostscript-7.07
> cp -R ../cups-1.1.20/pstoraster .
> patch --verbose -p1 <pstoraster/gs707-lib.patch
> ./configure
> vi Makefile (made the changes as suggested in the README.pstoraster file)
> make
>
> But still the problem seems to be the same....
>
>
> I also added the following lines into configure.ac
>
> AC_ARG_ENABLE(cups, [  --enable-cups           turn on CUPS support,
> default=yes])
>
> CUPSDEV=""
> CUPSINCLUDE=""
> CUPSCONFIG=":"
> cups_datadir="/usr/share/cups"
> cups_serverroot="/etc/cups"
> cups_serverbin="/usr/lib/cups"
>
> if test -d pstoraster; then
>     if test x$enable_cups != xno; then
>         AC_PATH_PROG(CUPSCONFIG,cups-config)
>         if test "x$CUPSCONFIG" != x; then
>             dnl Use values from CUPS config...
> #           LIBS="`$CUPSCONFIG --ldflags` `$CUPSCONFIG --static --image
> --libs | sed -e '1,$s/-lssl//'` $LIBS"
>             LIBS="`$CUPSCONFIG --ldflags` `$CUPSCONFIG --image --libs`
> $LIBS"
>             CFLAGS="`$CUPSCONFIG --cflags` $CFLAGS"
>             cups_serverroot="`$CUPSCONFIG --serverroot`"
>             cups_serverbin="`$CUPSCONFIG --serverbin`"
>             cups_datadir="`$CUPSCONFIG --datadir`"
>             CUPSINCLUDE="include pstoraster/cups.mak"
>             CUPSDEV="\$(DD)cups.dev"
>         fi
>     fi
> fi
>
> AC_SUBST(CUPSDEV)
> AC_SUBST(CUPSCONFIG)
> AC_SUBST(CUPSINCLUDE)
> AC_SUBST(cups_datadir)
> AC_SUBST(cups_serverroot)
> AC_SUBST(cups_serverbin)
>
> I got this code from ESP Ghostscript 7.07.1's configure.ac.
> I did an autoconf,
> ./configure
> vi Makefile (made the changes as suggested in the README.pstoraster file)
> make
>
>
> And still the problem exists ...
>
> Any suggestions ??
>
>
>
>
> - S u d e e p    V
> Unless you jump from the frying pan to the fire, all you get is a raw deal.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Till Kamppeter [mailto:till.kamppeter at gmx.net]
> Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 8:18 PM
> To: Sudeep, V
> Cc: cups at easysw.com
> Subject: Re: CUPS & Ghostscript
>
>
> Are the headers of the CUPS library installed on your system? Are old
> versions of CUPS (from your distro) completely removed?
>
>     Till
>
>
> v.sudeep at exgate.tek.com wrote:
> > Hi !!
> >
> > I was trying to compile CUPS (cups 1.1.20) as a driver in GNU
> > Ghostscript(7.07) as per the instructions in the README.pstoraster of
> CUPS.
> > I seem to be running into some problems.
> >
> > Here is a clipping from the build output:
> >
> > FEATURE_DEVS= DEVICE_DEVS= DEVICE_DEVS1= DEVICE_DEVS2= DEVICE_DEVS3= \
> > DEVICE_DEVS4= DEVICE_DEVS5= DEVICE_DEVS6= DEVICE_DEVS7= DEVICE_DEVS8= \
> > DEVICE_DEVS9= DEVICE_DEVS10= DEVICE_DEVS11= DEVICE_DEVS12= \
> > DEVICE_DEVS13= DEVICE_DEVS14= DEVICE_DEVS15= DEVICE_DEVS16= \
> > DEVICE_DEVS17= DEVICE_DEVS18= DEVICE_DEVS19= DEVICE_DEVS20= \
> > /bin/sh <./obj/ldt.tr
> > ./obj/gdevcups.o(.text+0x39): In function `cups_close':
> > : undefined reference to `cupsRasterClose'
> > ./obj/gdevcups.o(.text+0x235d): In function `cups_open':
> > : undefined reference to `ppdOpenFile'
> > ./obj/gdevcups.o(.text+0x24d3): In function `cups_print_pages':
> > : undefined reference to `cupsRasterWriteHeader'
> > ./obj/gdevcups.o(.text+0x25af): In function `cups_print_pages':
> > : undefined reference to `cupsRasterOpen'
> > ./obj/gdevcups.o(.text+0x434c): In function `cups_print_chunked':
> > : undefined reference to `cupsRasterWritePixels'
> > ./obj/gdevcups.o(.text+0x4753): In function `cups_print_banded':
> > : undefined reference to `cupsRasterWritePixels'
> > ./obj/gdevcups.o(.text+0x52ca): In function `cups_print_planar':
> > : undefined reference to `cupsRasterWritePixels'
> > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> > make: *** [bin/gs] Error 1
> >
> >
> > Any suggestions as to how to get this working ?
> >
> > Thanks in advance !!!
> >
> > - S u d e e p    V
> > Unless you jump from the frying pan to the fire, all you get is a raw
> deal.
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Till Kamppeter [mailto:till.kamppeter at gmx.net]
> > Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 8:37 PM
> > To: Sudeep, V
> > Cc: cups at easysw.com
> > Subject: Re: CUPS & Ghostscript
> >
> >
> > Follow the steps on
> >
> > http://www.linuxprinting.org/cups-doc.html
> >
> > This way you can make use of all built-in drivers of GhostScript and
> > also of all other known free printer drivers.
> >
> >     Till
> >
> >
> > v.sudeep at exgate.tek.com wrote:
> >
> >>Hi !!
> >>
> >>I recently downloaded the source code for CUPS 1.1.20 and GNU Ghostscript
> >>7.07b and built them individually on my system.
> >>
> >>Can you please tell me / direct me to a link as to how I can integrate the
> >>two such that -
> >>1. A simple "lp tiger.ps" is able to print the postscript file, unlike the
> >>complicated gs commands.
> >>2. If I dont need postscript printing, how do I make use of ghostscript's
> >>printer drivers so that I can print text & image files to say Lexmark &
> >>Epson printers.
> >>
> >>Thank you in advance.
> >>
> >>- S u d e e p    V
> >>Unless you jump from the frying pan to the fire, all you get is a raw
> >
> > deal.
> >
> >>
> >
> >
>