[KLUG Members] interesting Cups problem.

[Adam Williams]

>Hello everyone.  I've been trying to fix this the past couple of days, and 
>I've been googling, and asking the users group list, but I can't find a 
>solution to my (and a friend's) problem.  
>The issue, I think, is with cups, although I think it might go elesewhere. 
>This is on a Gentoo 1.4 rc2 box, on an Athlon XP 1800+.  When I try to 
>compile cups ( gcc 3.2 ) I get:
>compiling Annot.cxx:  C++ compiling not found on your system

You get this from the ./configure or the make?

Maybe you don't have the C++ compiler it wants, or in the wrong place. 
I didn't think gcc was a C++ compiler, but a C compiler.  Maybe you want
to type 'g++' and see if anything happens.

>The other people with a similar problem to this haven't had cc1plus on 
>their system, whereas I do.  It's kind of annoying, because cups is a 

Is it in your path?  Is that what the configure script is looking for?

>dependency of a few things I'd like to have installed, and I can't just 
>tell it not to use cups.  

You can't get a binary of something as common as CUPS?

>I've never had this problem, but a buddy of mine (gentoo on an xp as well) 
>has a LOT of the same problems I am having with compiling.  It's out of 
>the question that I don't have a c++ compiler, but at the same time, I 
>could be missing something.  

What is out of the question so often turns out to be true;  earth
rotating around the sun, etc.. :)

>On the other hand, I've got the same OS on a Dual PII system, and cups 
>compiles *fine*, along with anything else I feel like installing.  Creepy, 
>because it used the same install scheme my current install on the xp did.  
>So I don't know what's wrong, and I'm thinking it's an athlon + gcc 
>problem, or something, for lack of any better answers.

Far be it from me to defend any of those AMD *CRAP* compost processor
units, but this really doesn't seem like an arch dependency thing,  but
a munked up build environment.  Did you ever have the displeasure of
compiling something on AIX 3.2.3?

>So, at this point, the system is usable (no evolution, no konqueror) but 
>there's a few things I'd still like to have on it. 

No evolution!  And yet you call it usable!?