Is CUPS supported in AIX?

[Michael Sweet]

nivi wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> In this site, it is said CUPS 1.1.9 adds support for AIX, adds several performance improvements to the scheduler, adds support for the Apache Include directive, adds new HideImplicitMembers and ImplicitAnyClasses directives, stores user-defined options as differences from the system-defined options, adds a "natural-scaling" option for printing images, and fixes a number of small bugs. Binaries for several platforms are available."
>>>>
>>>> but in AIX site, CUPS support is not mentioned.
>>>> so can anybody tell me whether there is support for CUPS on AIX?
>>> AFAIK, IBM does not officially support (or use) CUPS on AIX.
>>>
>>> The changes in CUPS 1.1.9 merely added the necessary code to compile
>>> and run CUPS on AIX.
>>>
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> 
> Will cups-1.3.7 work on AIX 5.3 if i follow the procedure given in install.txt.
> or please provide the procedure for installation.
> I am a beginner. Please help me in this regard.

The last release of CUPS I personally compiled on AIX was 1.2.12 -
I no longer has an AIX system to do builds on.

That said, TheWrittenWord.com currently sells an open source CD with
the current release of CUPS on it for AIX, so it must still work...

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