Martin Costabel wrote:
> Kurt Pfeifle wrote:
>
>> Curtis Vaughan wrote:
>>
>>> Kurt Pfeifle wrote:
>>>
>>>> Curtis Vaughan wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Ben Hines wrote:
>>>>
> []
>
>>>>>> This is the fink list, we aren't going to help you do it without
>>>>>> fink. This is why fink exists, removal of all this hassle.
>>>>>
>
> Not a good advice in this case of the cups package. AFAICT there never
> was a working version in fink, and there probably won't be one, because
> with Jaguar it will be obsolete.
> []
>
Why are you addressing this to me? I didn't give that advice....
>>> Actually I left my installation of cups obtained from Apple's site
>>> and installed that through dselect.
>>
>
> This *is* strange. What version of cups were you able to get through
> dselect? AFAIK there is no version available in binary form, since there
> is no version in stable.
>
>> When I ran cupsd from /etc/cups or
>>
>>> from /sw/sbin I would get the following error:
>>>
>>> localhost ./cupsd: Unable to read configuration file
>>> '${prefix}/etc/cups/cupsd.conf' - exiting!
>>
>
> This is an old bug I always had with Max' cups package. IMHO it never
> worked. The patch file is wrong, or works only with certain specific
> tools I (and apparently Curtis) don't have. It replaces several
> "${prefix}" by "\${prefix}", and this gives the error Curtis is seeing.
>
>> So where *is* your '${prefix}/etc/cups/cupsd.conf'? Is it there ? Is it
>> readable ?
>
>
> I think you are too harsh with Curtis.
I just offered my thoughts about someone's difficulties, trying to get
CUPS running on Mac OS X, without having access to Mac OS X myself (and
I did point this out). Not just one mail, but two, each with quite a few,
very detailed hints about configuration settings and links to find more
info. What more do you want?
> Or do you have a directory named
> (literally!) ${prefix}?
Of course not...
So I offer my next piece of wisdom:
* locate your "cupsd.conf" (it *seems* to be somewhere, as you quoted
pieces of it
* read "man cupsd" and learn that you can start cupsd like this:
"/path/to/cupsd -c /path/to/cupsd.conf" (This way you should be
able to overcome any broken startup script that uses an invalid
"$prefix" notion...
* this way it should be possible to start cups manually (and later
write a little one-line script that does it....)
> Do you have a working version of cups from fink
> at all? What version? I do have one, but only because I made my own
> package description for cups 1.15.
>
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