Hi All, I'm a bit of a newbie to OpenBSD coming from Debian and Ubuntu systems. I am well out of my depth and have no experience whatsoever with ports and I'm a bit intimidiated by them. If anyone can point me in the right direction I'd be grateful. I only run a home desktop system and getting the printer to work seems to be last challenge before I can switch wholly to OpenBSD. Been reading Matt Lucas's book and browsing the faq to help. This is what I've tried in the direction of compiling.
I'm trying to get my printer to work with cups. It is an Epson Stylus SX205 (which is a slightly modified SX200) and it works best under the Epson ESC/P-R driver. I have downloaded epson-inkjet-printer-escpr-1.3.1-1lsb3.2.src.rpm as recommended by the Epson site http://download.ebz.epson.net/dsc/search/01/search/?OSC=LX Many Thanks in advance Maurice - - - - The Epson documentation gives the unpacking commands $ rpm2cpio epson-inkjet-printer-escpr-1.3.1-1lsb3.2.src.rpm | cpio -id $ tar zxvf epson-inkjet-printer-escpr-1.3.1-1lsb3.2.tar.gz Now I realize that OpenBSD is not an LSB distro but the above is what Epson recommends for non-LSB distros (I assume BSDs or other Linux). I installed mawk (cannot remember why) and ran the given commands $ cd epson-inkjet-printer-escpr-1.3.1 $ ./bootstrap && ./configure --prefix=/usr/local \ --with-cupsfiltersdir /usr/local/libexec/cups/filter \ --with-cupsppddir /usr/local/share/ppd/cupsfilters bootstrap fails ./bootstrap[27]: libtoolize: not found ./bootstrap[28]: aclocal: not found ./bootstrap[29]: autoconf: not found The --with-*dir options produce quick errors in ./configure configure: WARNING: you should use --build, --host, --target configure: WARNING: invalid host type: /usr/local/libexec/cups/filter configure: WARNING: you should use --build, --host, --target configure: WARNING: invalid host type: /usr/local/share/ppd/cupsfilters configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --with-cupsfiltersdir checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... ./install-sh -c -d checking for gawk... no checking for mawk... mawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking for /usr/local/libexec/cups/filter-gcc... no checking for gcc... gcc checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking for suffix of executables... checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed checking for style of include used by make... GNU checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3 checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking whether ln -s works... yes checking build system type... /usr/local/libexec/cups/filter configure: error: invalid value of canonical build Yet ./configure --prefix=/usr/local runs through OK but on make I get ... collect2: ld returned 1 exit status *** Error 1 in src (Makefile:315 'epson-escpr') *** Error 1 in . (Makefile:361 'all-recursive') *** Error 1 in /usr/src/epson-inkjet-printer-escpr-1.3.1 (Makefile:264 'all')
