Re: [gtk-osx-users] Building on PPC fails

[John Ralls <jralls ceridwen us>]

On Jan 19, 2013, at 1:23 PM, Steffen Gutmann <muibase yahoo com> wrote:

>> Not surprising, I guess, since there's a note about newer Cups versions 
> 
>> being incompatible with older versions of OSX. The minimum Cups requirement is, 
>> IIRC, 1.4.0. Try 1.4.8, the last release in that series.
>> By following the "older releases" link on the Cups download page I 
>> found a URL that won't choke jhbuild:
>> http://ftp.easysw.com/pub/cups/1.4.8/cups-1.4.8-source.tar.bz2
>> 
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
> 
> 
> I have tried 1.4.8 and 1.4.0 but both seem to require Leopard.  With 1.3.0 and a few tweaks I get cups compiled for Tiger.  But when trying to install it, it wants to put some files in /usr/lib (and some others in ~/gtk/inst), e.g.:
> 
> Installing in systemv...
> install: /Users/steffen/gtk/inst/bin/lppasswd: chown/chgrp: Operation not permitted
> Installing in test...
> Installing in scripting/php...
> Installing phpcups.so in /usr/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613
> install: chmod 755 /usr/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613: Operation not permitted
> install: /usr/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613/phpcups.so: Permission denied
> make[1]: *** [install] Error 71
> make: *** [install] Error 1

I looked on my Tiger boot disk and found cups-1.2.12.dmg, so that's apparently both new enough and old enough. It's also available from ftp://ftp.easysw.com/pub/cups/1.2.12/, as are source tarballs.

Sorry that this is turning into a big PITA. How many users do you have who are clinging to Tiger?

Regards,
John Ralls