libreoffice can't print to lpd/lp printers

Steve Kargl sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu
Tue Jul 24 20:08:46 UTC 2012


On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 06:03:42AM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On 2012-Jul-24 10:03:41 -0700, Steve Kargl <sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote:
> >If one builds libreoffice and one does not use CUPS,
> >then libreoffice will not print to an lpd/lp printer.
> >This worked with older versins of this port.  One
> >can find a thread about this problem at
> >
> >http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentfoundation.libreoffice.user/19782
> >
> >To fix the problem, the Makefile needs to be changed
> >with the following patch.  After rebuilding libreoffice
> >with the patch, I can again print to lpd/lp without
> >a problem.
> 
> See http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=167441
> amongst others
> 

Thanks for the pointer.  I was not aware that others
have reported the problem.  Heck, I'm just happy that
libreoffice again builds on amd64.

-- 
Steve


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