cupstestppd: confusion about the "-R" option

Kennedy, Smith (Macintosh Software - IPG MCT) smith.kennedy at hp.com
Fri Oct 2 14:09:51 PDT 2009


On Oct 2, 2009, at 2:40 PM, Michael Sweet wrote:

> On Oct 2, 2009, at 1:16 PM, Kennedy, Smith (Macintosh Software - IPG
> MCT) wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> For whatever reason, I cannot seem to figure out how to get the "-R"
>> option to work with cupstestppd, to have it look in an alternate
>> root.  If I have a PPD named "foo.gz" that specifies a cupsFilter "/
>> usr/libexec/cups/filter/foofilter", and I have a local directory  
>> where
>> I have built foofilter like so:
>>
>> /home/smitty/build/usr/libexec/cups/filter/foofilter
>>
>> then I was expecting that if I typed in this:
>>
>> cupstestppd -R /home/smitty/build foo.gz
>>
>> that it would prepend any paths found with "/home/smitty/build/" and
>> search there.  But it doesn't seem to do that.  So how is this
>> argument supposed to work?  It is never covered in the examples.
>
> That should work - are you using CUPS 1.4.x or the old standalone DDK?

Sorry, my mistake.  I should have specified that.  I am using CUPS  
1.4.1 (Mac OS X 10.6.1 10B504).  I have tried using both absolute and  
relative paths, and these paths do not have spaces in them.





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