Re: cups ebuild error

Nic wrote:
> >On Tuesday 01 October 2002 10:14 am, 3.2.3 wrote:
> >
> >
> >>checking for cupsPrintFiles in -lcups... no
> >>configure: error: Cannot find CUPS libraries (libcups)
> >>!!! ERROR The ebuild did not complete successfully.
> >>!!! Function econf, Line 9, Exitcode 1
> >>!!! econf failed
> >>
> >>
> I had the same error (which at first was really annoying cause like every
> single packages had/has cups as a dep (or is it cause of my make.conf file, didn't check that though)
> 
> This morning I downloaded the 1.15_r1 (or was it 1.1.15_r1) source tarball from the cups site, ran thru the install.
> After that, I checked whether emerge would see that cups was already compiled from source on my system (Didn't off course :-/ )
> Apparently the gentoo-cups-ebuild says it's version 1.1.15_R2 (although cups.org only has a r1-build???).
> 
> But the bright side is that the cups-ebuild didn't complain anymore on cupslib (or was it libcups??? damn, I really need STRONG coffee it seems!!!!)

libcups.

cups 1.1.15_r2 is what was already in my portage tree. that's the ebuild
that was borken for me.

solution: if you have cups and X USEd, then there is a circular
dependency. manually emerge ghostscript, then emerge cups, then emerge
kde.

then onto the problem where you have to manually emerge arts and kdelibs
first to fix another error. so i'm told is the fix for the error i'm
stuck on now. :)

this is all covered in the forums, which are much more searchable than
the list archives.

--chris