print/cups-base won't build due to dwarf error in /usr/bin/ld

[Thomas Mueller]

Seems like this version of cups absolutely requires zeroconf. You can           

> configure with either avahi or mdnsresponder, but the build fails if            

> neither is specified. I have not looked into it to tell if this is an error     

> in the port or that cups now will only run when a zeroconf resolver is          

> available.                                                                      

                                                                                

> Not sure about the dwarf error. I have only seen that when building with        

> debug, so I am surprised to see it during the build. It may not be a real       

> issue.                                                                          

> R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired                                     
I just copy-and-paste, on newcons I get all unwanted double-spacing.

Sorry about this formatting inelegancy.

I do no better with avahi or mdnsresponder, and I tried both.  Just a different error:

===>  Installing for cups-base-1.7.2_1                                          

===>  Checking if print/cups-base already installed                             

===>   Registering installation for cups-base-1.7.2_1                           

pkg-static: lstat(/usr/ports/print/cups-base/work11/stage/usr/local/lib/php/2010

0525/phpcups.so): No such file or directory                                     

pkg-static: lstat(/usr/ports/print/cups-base/work11/stage/usr/local/lib/php/2010

0525/): No such file or directory                                               

*** Error code 74                                                               

                                                                                

Stop.                                                                           

make[1]: stopped in /usr/ports/print/cups-base                                  

*** Error code 1                                                                

                                                                                

Stop.                                                                           

make: stopped in /usr/ports/print/cups-base                                     

                                                                                

===>>> Installation of cups-base-1.7.2_1 (print/cups-base) failed               

===>>> Aborting update                                                          

Again, a lot of inelegant extra spacing when I copy-and-paste in newcons.

On the other computer, where I have a freshly installed Seagate 4 TB hard drive, not yet started partitioning, I need to partition and install NetBSD-current, FreeBSD 11-current or 10-stable, followed by Linux.

I am curious to see how cups fares in NetBSD with pkgsrc, or Linux with Gentoo.

Another way is to see if I can print MS-Windows-style with wine and no cups.

Cups is an option with wine, so I don't know if I'd need it to print from wine.

I wish there were an alternative to cups for a printer that requires hplip.

Tom