On 08/13/09 04:38, Alfred Peng wrote: > Hi Nic, > > Not sure we can help for this issue. > > The test we've done with regards to Firefox printing is for papi > backend. Several papi bugs were fixed in Solaris 10U6 and Firefox papi > backend started to work after that. Since CUPS isn't shipped with > Solaris 10, we haven't done any test for the Firefox cups backend > support yet. > Since Firefox on Solaris 10U6 delivers its own copy of gtk+, for CUPS support it should install CUPS on the build environment before building gtk+. Without which, the CUPS backend will not be generated. However, installing a CUPS backend on a Solaris 10U6 or above that does have CUPS itself installed causes the applications to crash. This means, CUPS supports on Solaris 10U6 and above is really use at your own risks. I recommend the Firefox base team not to ship the CUPS print backend on Solaris 10 even it is buildable. OpenSolaris though supports both CUPS and LP. May be Will can confirm. > As I know, Will should have certain experience to deploy Firefox > 3.0.x/3.5.x on Solaris 10 with CUPS printing enabled. That's the reason > we provided the cups backend binary: > http://releases.mozilla.com/sun/solaris10/. CC him to this list (he > might be busy lately btw). >
-Ghee > Cheers, > -Alfred > > On 08/13/09 08:45 AM, nicole at thatsnice.org wrote: > >> Hello SUN Desktop Beijing Team, >> I'm an admin on a small mixed network. We're trying to deploy the >> latest version of Firefox to our sparc Solaris 10 machines and noticed >> that neither 3.5.2, nor 3.5.1 are detecting our cups install. >> Firefox 3.0.8 was able to detect it and populate the print diolog if >> we put the cups lib first in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH, but this doesn't do >> anything for 3.5.2 or 3.5.1 . The odd thing is that if I update the >> ~/.gtkrc-2.0 's with gtk-print-backends = "cups,lpr,file" lpr, and >> file will show up in print diolog, but not the CUPS print queues. If >> I remove the lpr and file options, the print diolog will launch, but >> the 'print' option will be greyed out, and there are no options to >> select from. >> >> It looks like it's just not finding the CUPS install for whatever >> reason. Were there different compile flags used for 3.08& >> 3.5.2/3.5.1 ? Any ideas what might have changed, or directions you >> could point me in for further info? >> >> ~> uname -a >> SunOS chaffinch 5.10 Generic_137137-09 sun4u sparc SUNW,A70 >> >> CUPS 1.3.9 >> >> Thank you so much for keeping the SPARC firefox contrib packages >> updated, they're very helpful! >> >> -Nic >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/desktop-discuss/attachments/20090813/a89c46ae/attachment.html>
