[cups.general] how to upgrade cups from 1.1 to 1.4

[Michael Sweet]

Make sure /usr/ccs/bin in in your path...

On May 12, 2011, at 8:56 AM, jim wrote:

> So I've run the ./configure which produces the following  "Unable to find required library archive command".... I've include the output as well...  thanks
> 
> bash-3.00# ./configure
> checking for gawk... no
> checking for mawk... no
> checking for nawk... nawk
> checking for gcc... no
> checking for cc... cc
> checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
> checking whether the C compiler works... yes
> checking whether we are cross compiling... no
> checking for suffix of executables...
> checking for suffix of object files... o
> checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... no
> checking whether cc accepts -g... yes
> checking for cc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
> checking how to run the C preprocessor... cc -E
> checking for g++... no
> checking for c++... no
> checking for gpp... no
> checking for aCC... no
> checking for CC... CC
> checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... no
> checking whether CC accepts -g... yes
> checking for ranlib... no
> checking for ar... no
> checking for chmod... /usr/bin/chmod
> checking for htmldoc... no
> checking for ld... /usr/ucb/ld
> checking for ln... /usr/bin/ln
> checking for mv... /usr/bin/mv
> checking for rm... /usr/bin/rm
> checking for rmdir... /usr/bin/rmdir
> checking for sed... /usr/bin/sed
> checking for xdg-open... no
> checking for install-sh script... using /tmp/cups-1.4.6/cups-1.4.6/install-sh
> configure: error: Unable to find required library archive command.
> bash-3.00#
> 
> 
> 
>> On May 11, 2011, at 1:53 PM, jim wrote:
>>> I'm fairly new to the Unix world.
>>> 
>>> I downloaded the cups version 1.4.6 and have untared the tar ball.  What is the next step ??
>> 
>> Read "INSTALL.txt".
>> 
>>> Will I lose all my currently configured printers ?
>> 
>> No.
>> 
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