Re: printing

On 11/21/25 12:27 PM, "Douglas R. Reno" ([email protected] via 
blfs-support Mailing List) wrote:
> On 11/21/25 8:47 AM, Richard ([email protected] via blfs-support Mailing 
> List) wrote:
>> On 11/20/25 4:33 PM, Bruce Dubbs ([email protected] via 
>> blfs-support Mailing List) wrote:
>>> On 11/20/25 3:23 PM, Richard ([email protected] via blfs-support Mailing 
>>> List) wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I've built blfs-12.4 according to the stable book, and I'm having
>>>> a hard time getting printing to work. I have an HP SmartTank
>>>> 7602 printer, so I need to somehow install hplip. I got to
>>>> the point in blfs-12.2 that I could use the printer, but so far
>>>> no luck in 12.4. I realize that you do not support hplip, so I won't
>>>> ask for instructions, but I am just curious if anyone has
>>>> gotten the hplip automatic installer to work for blfs-12.4?
>>>> I think I've installed the required dependencies for packages,
>>>> except I haven't install QT6.
>>>
>>> I was using hplip until the printer failed.  My notes were:
>>>
>>> Not sure if gutenprint is needed.
>>>
>>> hplip needs net-snmp
>>>   install fails with man pages (needs sedscript whatever that is)
>>>
>>> hplip needs sane
>>>
>>> Set parallel port capability!
>>>
>>> Build with:
>>>
>>> ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-pp-build
>>> make
>>> sudo make install
>>> ============
>>> From another user:
>>>
>>> For HPLIP, I use
>>> "./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc 
>>> --enable-cups-ppd-install".
>>>
>>> This is for an HP Envy All-In-One (printer, scanner, copier). There 
>>> should be
>>> no need for parallel port capability.  Gutenprint is not needed (I 
>>> don't know
>>> if it may be required for some printer models, but it isn't for me) 
>>> and there
>>> is no need to restart CUPS afterwards.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Still no luck, I always get a 'make' error:
>> make: *** [Makefile:6597: cupsext_la-cupsext.lo] Error 1
>> Do you have Python2 installed? I don't, and I'm wondering
>> if that could be my problem.
>>
>> Richard
>>
> Hi Richard,
>
> Can you post the error that appears above the 'make' line? That 
> doesn't really give us much to work with...
>
> - Doug
>
>

Hi Doug,

There isn't much information about the error, but here are the
last few lines of 'make':


prnt/cupsext/cupsext.c:1174:9: warning: 'ppdPageLength' is deprecated: 
Use cupsCopyDestInfo and friends instead. [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
  1174 |         length = ppdPageLength(ppd, page_size->text);
       |         ^~~~~~
/usr/include/cups/ppd.h:391:25: note: declared here
   391 | extern float            ppdPageLength(ppd_file_t *ppd, const 
char *name)
       |                         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
prnt/cupsext/cupsext.c: In function 'setOptions':
prnt/cupsext/cupsext.c:1503:9: warning: 'cupsMarkOptions' is deprecated: 
Use cupsCopyDestInfo and friends instead. [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
  1503 |         cupsMarkOptions(ppd, dest->num_options, dest->options);
       |         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
/usr/include/cups/ppd.h:363:25: note: declared here
   363 | extern int              cupsMarkOptions(ppd_file_t *ppd, int 
num_options, cups_option_t *options) _CUPS_DEPRECATED_1_6_MSG("Use 
cupsCopyDestInfo and friends instead.");
       |                         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
make: *** [Makefile:6597: cupsext_la-cupsext.lo] Error 1

And since the error refers to line 6597, here is what is in the Makefile
starting at line 6596:

cupsext_la-cupsext.lo: prnt/cupsext/cupsext.c
         $(LIBTOOL)  --tag=CC $(AM_LIBTOOLFLAGS) $(LIBTOOLFLAGS) 
--mode=compile $(CC) $(DEFS) $(DEFAULT_INCLUDES) $(INCLUDES) 
$(AM_CPPFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) $(cupsext_la_CFLAGS) $(CFLAGS) -MT 
cupsext_la-cupsext.lo -MD -MP -MF $(DEPDIR)/cupsext_la-cupsext.Tpo -c -o 
cupsext_la-cupsext.lo `test -f 'prnt/cupsext/cupsext.c' || echo 
'$(srcdir)/'`prnt/cupsext/cupsext.c


I have tried many different ./configure options, including the ones
that Bruce Dubbs used above, and they all give the same error.

Richard

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