[PATCH] xprint is broken in xserver git

Maarten Maathuis madman2003 at gmail.com
Sun Aug 19 09:34:47 PDT 2007


I saw more references on this mailinglist to xprint issues, so it's not just me.

Can others speak up as well, if they have this issue.

Maarten.

On 8/19/07, Drew Parsons <dparsons at debian.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 17:09 +0200, Maarten Maathuis wrote:
> > The makefile lacked some libraries that needed to be linked to and
> > some function propotypes (or whatever they are called) were missing.
> >
>
> For the record, I tested the xserver/Xprt build the other day (git at
> 14/8/07), and Xprt built fine without require the patch you suggested
> here.  My build includes a couple of Debian patches, but they shouldn't
> affect any linking of hal/dbus.  Pixman should be linked after commit
> 59961e47df4ea621a6713a8c7d060555f8746c3a (Alan Coopersmith, Fri Aug 10),
> which requires configure to be rebuilt (autoreconf).
>
> I need Xprint in particular because of a long-standing bug in firefox,
> in which non-Xprint printers refuse to print saying "paper size not
> known".
>
> Drew
>



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