Re: [TCLCORE] tkprint-cups branch - please test

[Emiliano <emi...@gm...>]

Hi Schelte, thanks for testing !!

> Great work, thanks. I have tried this on SUSE 15.4 with the following 
> results:
> 
> ../unix/configure reports (among other things):
> checking whether to use libcups... yes
> checking for cups/cups.h... no
> 
> The make command then fails with:
> ../unix/tkUnixPrint.c:16:10: fatal error: cups/cups.h: No such file or 
> directory
>   #include <cups/cups.h>

There was a small typo in the check (cups -> libcups) that should be fixed
now. I've not regenerated the configure script, just changed configure.ac

> So it seems the configure check for cups availability is not foolproof 
> (me acting as the fool).
> 
> After installing cups-devel (zypper in cups-devel), everything builds 
> fine. The dialog looks great and correctly shows my printer. I missed 
> the option to print to a file, which is normally present in a print 
> dialog. But that option is also not available in the scripted version. 
> So this is not a deficiency of the compiled version.

Default GTK print dialog allows print to file, but others doesn't. This
is toolkit dependent. For a generic solution, there is a generic pdf
printer which outputs a pdf file in $env(HOME)/PDF directory by default.
This printer is also good for testing without wasting ink and paper.
 
> I haven't actually tried printing. My understanding is that the request 
> was only to check the dialog.

The dialog should be there, and print, even if you don't have CUPS
development files installed. There's an [exec] based implementation
as fallback in this case. Expect it to be *way* slower but fully
functional.

Thanks for testing.

-- 
Emiliano