My Backend does not display when i runlpinfo-v

[Patrice]

> Patrice wrote:
>
> >>
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> On Jul 27 00:37 Patrice wrote (excerpt):
> >> >>> I wrote a simple socket Backend file for my own printing and store it
> >> >>> in the directory /usr/lib/cups/backend/mysocket. The permission of
> >> >>> the file is the same as others (-rwxr-xr-x) but when I run lpinfo -v
> >> >>> to see all the available backends my backend does not display.
> >> >>
> >> >> Have a look at
> >> >> http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Using_Your_Own_Backends_to_Print_with_CUPS
> >> >> for examples.
> >> >
> >> > The example I am using is from the link above but I still can't get
> >> > it to work. Is there something I should do when installing the
> >> > the backend in the directory? I suppose the above example should
> >> > also work under Ubuntu 10.10
> >>
> >> The examples were tested and worked for me when I wrote the article and
> >> right now I verified that the "optimistic backend for a network printer"
> >> works on my openSUSE 11.3 system:
> >> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >> root at host# lpinfo -v | grep mysocket
> >> network mysocket://192.168.1.2:9100
> >>
> >> root at host# lpadmin -p testy -v mysocket://192.168.1.2:9100 -E
> >>
> >> root at host# lpstat -v testy
> >> device for testy: mysocket://192.168.1.2:9100
> >> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>
> >> I don't know about possible peculiarities or differences in Ubuntu.
> >>
> >> Perhaps a re-start of the cupsd may help?
> >>
> >> Perhaps /var/log/cups/error_log (with "LogLevel debug") may
> >> show something of interest why it does not work?
> >>
> >>
> >> Kind Regards
> >> Johannes Meixner
> >> --
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> >> Imendoerffer
> >>
> >
> > Hello Johannes
> >
> > When I run the command $ lpinfo -v | grep mysocket I get the following
> > error in the "/var/log/cups/error_log" file:
> >
> > E [27/Jul/2011:15:21:33 +0200] [cups-deviced] PID 8653 (mysocket) stopped
> > with status 8!
> >
> > Regards
> > Patrice
>
> How did you compile your backend? status 8 might be "exec format error".
>
> Helge
>

Hello Helge

I have no idea that the Backend needs to be compiled. How do I go about to compile it?

Regards
Patrice