samba - Jun 2004 - BEWARE when compiling with CUPS support

Dear Folks,

I have been pounding my head against a wall trying
to solve mulitiple problems trying to get SAMBA
to work (Fedora core 2).   Authentication was
taking several minutes, and CUPS printing was
problematic. 

I finally removed the Fedora distribution
SAMBA binary, and installed the source (from
the distribution).

Recompiling solved the authentication problem
(by excluding the PAM handles).  I discovered
an annoying problem with CUPS support.

If you configure with the --enable-cups option,
but do not have the cups-devel package installed
(in addition to simply cups), the binaries
eventually produced simply will not work with
CUPS, but the configure and make process does
not complain.  

After scratching my head after seeing that SAMBA
was not even acknowledging the printers' existence,
I finally went through the config.log
file and saw that it tested for cups-devel, but
there was no comment or failure when it did not
find it; it just hummed along.

I decided to install the cups-devel package,
re-configured and re-made SAMBA, and "voila!"
there they were.   

The test pages even printed out!  (The cups
files had already been modified to pass raw
data.)

Rich

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On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Richard Bonomo wrote:
> If you configure with the --enable-cups option, but do not have the
> cups-devel package installed (in addition to simply cups), the binaries
> eventually produced simply will not work with CUPS, but the configure
> and make process does not complain.
Yup.  It's a bug.  I'll work on fixing it next week.





cheers, jerry
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Richard Bonomo wrote:

| If you configure with the --enable-cups option,
| but do not have the cups-devel package installed
| (in addition to simply cups), the binaries
| eventually produced simply will not work with
| CUPS, but the configure and make process does
| not complain.

Here's the patch.  You'll need to rerun autogen.sh after
applying.





cheers, jerry
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Index: configure.in
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configure.in	(revision 1367)
+++ configure.in	(working copy)
@@ -712,10 +712,12 @@
 	AC_PATH_PROG(CUPS_CONFIG, cups-config)
 
         if test "x$CUPS_CONFIG" != x; then
-                        AC_DEFINE(HAVE_CUPS,1,[Whether we have CUPS])
+                AC_DEFINE(HAVE_CUPS,1,[Whether we have CUPS])
 		CFLAGS="$CFLAGS `$CUPS_CONFIG --cflags`"
 		LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS `$CUPS_CONFIG --ldflags`"
 		PRINT_LIBS="$PRINT_LIBS `$CUPS_CONFIG --libs`"
+	elif test x$enable_cups == xyes; then
+		AC_MSG_ERROR(Cups support required but cups-config not located.  Make sure
cups-devel related files are installed.)
         fi
 fi