On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 09:22, Martin Costabel wrote: > Madhulika Pareek-Joshi wrote: > > Hi Peter: > > Thanks for your suggestions. I installed FLTK using Fink, but when i > > try to compile XPP, I am receiving an error message. Everything is fine > > when I type the ./configure command. > > Really? Does it find the libfltk library and the cups/cups.h and FL/Fl.H > headers? I found that the xpp configure script is badly broken, it > doesn't take --includedirs and other similar options into account. > > > But, when I type "make", the > > terminal simply scrolls up two three pages quickly, and shows the > > following error on the last screen. > > It shows the real error somewhere on the first page, I suppose, which if > it's the same as for me, is a message that it doesn't find some headers. Try > > make CPPFLAGS+="-I/sw/include" LDFLAGS="-L/sw/lib -lfltk" > > If you want to compile things that use fink-installed packages, you > should read some fink docs at > http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/usage-general.php#compile-myself > > Another point: I hope you installed not the "fltk" package from fink, > but one of "fltk-x11-42" or "fltk-x11-43". > > Finally: Could you explain me why xpp is interesting, when we already > have PrintCenter and the CUPS web interface on the Mac? If you convince > me, I might make a fink package for it, so that future installations > would be trivial. > > All this has nothing to do with scribus, of cours, but since you started > this thread on this list, we might as well finish it here.
Thanks for the explanation. The reason I suggested XPP, as there was a tech note on linuxprinting.org (down at the moment) which recommended using this with this particular printer model for this specific problem. In the past, before Scribus had CUPS support, I used XPP quite successfully and found it had more control over printing than the then existing RH ( 7.1,7.2) printer software. With CUPS and/or kprinter with KDE3 it is sort of obsolete. Regards, Peter
