> I am trying to get my printer working under Fedora Core 3. <snip>
> Instruction 4 gave rise to two questions in my mind: did the Makefile > file just set out need any editing to suit an FC3 install? If so, > what should be edited? Looks right from here. > Since I didn't know the answers to those two questions, I thought I'd > see what happened if I just issued the command "make". > > I got the following answer: "make: `oki4drv' is up to date". > > So far, my experience of compiling anything has been limited to a > couple of drivers and I don't understand the answer I was given. It means that "make" can see the expected results of executing that makefile, and doesn't think it needs to do anything further. This was probably done by whoever packaged the driver sources. You can carry straight on from here, or run `make clean` to clear away any previous output and run `make` just to be sure. Depends on how trusting you feel :) Cheers, James > I set out > below part of some instructions I am told to follow. The formatting > of the quoted material does not reproduce exactly that in the > original instructions, but seems close enough for present purposes. > > "These instructions use the oki4drv program, the oki4w driver, the > oki4daemon, and the CUPS spooler. This was tested withRedhat v9. The > test printer name is Okipage8z. Substitute the name as needed. > > 1. Create a suitable directory to contain all the source files. > mkdir /usr/local/src/oki4drv > cd /usr/local/src/oki4drv > > 2. Download the oki4linux-2.1gst.tar.gz file into your new oki4drv > directory. The file can be found at > <http://www.linuxprinting.org/download/printing/>http://www.linuxprinting.org/download/printing/ > > 3. tar -xvzf oki4linux-2.1gst.tar.gz > cd oki4linux/src > > 4. Edit the Makefile file, to suit a Redhat install, and change the > install paths to: install: oki4drv > > install -m4755 oki4drv /usr/local/sbin > install -m644 oki4drv.man /usr/share/man/man8/oki4drv.8 > > 5. make > make install" > > I set out below the Makefile file referred to in instruction 4. > > "CC=gcc > CFLAGS=-O6 -Wall > > oki4drv: main.c > $(CC) $(CFLAGS) -g main.c -o oki4drv > > install: oki4drv > install -m4755 oki4drv /usr/local/sbin > install -m644 oki4drv.man /usr/local/man/man8/oki4drv.8 > > clean:: > rm -f *.bak *~ oki4drv *.xbm" > > Instruction 4 gave rise to two questions in my mind: did the Makefile > file just set out need any editing to suit an FC3 install? If so, > what should be edited? > > Since I didn't know the answers to those two questions, I thought I'd > see what happened if I just issued the command "make". > > I got the following answer: "make: `oki4drv' is up to date". > > So far, my experience of compiling anything has been limited to a > couple of drivers and I don't understand the answer I was given. > > I'd be very grateful if anyone would tell me how to proceed now with > the instructions. > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
