[cups.general] CUPS installation on HP-UX

[Michael R Sweet]

FKotte wrote:
> Hello dear CUPS user,
> 
> My problem relates to the installation of CUPS on a HP-UX 10 client.
> 
> The main steps are : 1. ./configure
>                      2. make
>                      3. make install
> 
> The steps 1 and 2 are working fine but the 3rd step isnt working.
> The installation produces the following error-message:
> 
>    "cp: illegal option -- d"
>    "Usage:  cp [-f|-i] [-p] [-S] [-e warn|force|ignore] source_file       target_file
>         cp [-f|-i] [-p] [-S] [-e warn|force|ignore] source_file ... target_direc"
> 
> I dont know what is going on here???
> How can I resolve this problem. Can anyone help me, please???

Change the definition of INSTALL in Makedefs to the full path of the
install-sh script in the CUPS sources.  The HP-UX version of install
does not support creation of directories... :(

Also, in the future you might want to include the version of CUPS
you are using... :)

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Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer