[cups] Compiling CUPS for AIX?

[Michael Sweeet]

Brandon,

Unfortunately, we pulled the AIX-specific support in CUPS 2.0; you can maybe look at adapting it from the configure/makefile stuff in CUPS 1.7, or you can try using libtool (I'm not a fan but it is still present in the CUPS build system as an option) to get shared libraries going.  But what we had was somewhat specific to AIX 4.x and we had no way to validate newer CUPS builds against a current AIX release...

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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair

> On May 20, 2015, at 1:33 PM, Haines, Brandan <BAHaines at cooperstandard.com> wrote:
> 
> Michael and others:
> 
> I'm trying to install/compile/use CUPS 2.1 from the git repository.  I'm interested in testing/validating my reported bug (STR #4575) in my AIX environment.
> 
> I *think* I've managed to get everything correct, but "configure" and "make test" are returning errors and I'm stuck.
> 
> configure (snips)
> checking for library containing acl_init... no
> Warning: shared libraries may not be supported.  Trying -shared
>         option with compiler.
> 
> make test (snip)
> Making all in cups...
> Linking libcups.so.2...
> ld: 0706-005 Cannot find or open file: libcups.so.2
>        ld:open(): No such file or directory
> collect2: error: ld returned 255 exit status
> make: The error code from the last command is 1.
> 
> Is there any kind of "how to" or "whitepaper" or "instruction manual" on how to take the source and compile it/install it for my system (AIX 7100-03-03-1415) or can someone point me in a direction to at least get past/fix this "error"?
> 
> -Brandan
> 
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