The new cups ports seem to not recognize usb printers on FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE

eculp eculp at encontacto.net
Sat Dec 5 16:45:44 UTC 2009


Quoting Gary Jennejohn <gary.jennejohn at freenet.de>:

> On Sat, 05 Dec 2009 07:41:38 -0600
> eculp <eculp at encontacto.net> wrote:
>
>> Quoting "Brian W." <brian at brianwhalen.net>:
>>
>> > Dirk Meyer wrote:
>> >> eculp schrieb:,
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>> would seem that I'm going to have to upgrade all my 7.2-STABLE
>> >>> servers  to either 8.0 or 9.0 that all have usb printers that are
>> >>> being shared  by others through cups.
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >> Please update the ports and try again.
>> >> I would like to know if using libusb solves your problems.
>>
>> Thanks, Dirk.  My ports, src, kernel, lib, are completely up to date
>> on all my 7.2 machines.  Daily, I' ve been cvsuping and rebuilding all
>> for the last week.
>> cvsup - make buildworld - make buildkernel - make installkernel -
>> make installworld - portmaster -a
>> This is in addition to having rebuild all cups related ports multiple
>> times.  If I need to do something to "use libusb",  I haven't.  maybe
>> that is the problem.
>>
>
> An option WITH_LIBUSB was added to the cups-base/Makefile.  That's
> probably what Dirk meant.

Thanks for the explanation, Gary.  I have it set with make config but  
just hardcoded it into the Makefile and am recompiling but I doubt it  
will change but there is still hope. ;)

Thanks again.  Have a great weekend

ed
>
> ---
> Gary Jennejohn
>



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