Arch Linux User Repository

Canon also supports this driver on i686 and MIPS64 .

IF

you run archlinux (or something close to it) on such a processor

AND have a supported printer

AND are willing to help test necessary adjustments

THEN please send me an email.

The printers supported by this package are often networked.

problems can be in the cnrdrvcups-lb driver, but also with authentication over smb, vpn settings etc .

Troubleshooting those is often very hard.

Archlinux and derivatives are not supported by canon. Use whatever works for you, even if that means using canon drivers in a VM that runs a supported distro .

Thanks, stray single quote removed.

I also noticed I had forgotten to reset pkgrel to 1 on updating to version 6. I have now done that and added epoch=1 to ensure pacman will update this package correctly.

A little fix for aarch64

diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index 95093db..92a3532 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ _setvars() {

     local -A _libsarchfolder
     _libsarchfolder['x86_64']="libs64/intel"
-    _libsarchfolder['aarch64']="libs64/arm'"
+    _libsarchfolder['aarch64']="libs64/arm"

     _vars=(
         _builddir="${srcdir}/${_srcdir}"

The build error has been solved and the PKGBUILD has been adjusted to ensure future build/install errors will lead to abortion of the build.

The neccessary files for .desktop entries were present in the source and are now included in the package.

Confirmed, good catch.

It appears the generated make_arch doesn't pass on the error, so build continued and a package was created as if everything was fine.

Not sure yet how to tackle this, it may be time to abandon the autogenerated scripts and revert to manual 'translation' of *.spec file to PKGBUILD .

Getting this error when building

make[2]: Entering directory '/home/user/.cache/aur/cnrdrvcups-lb/src/extracted-cnrdrvcups-lb-5.90/cnrdrvcups-lb-5.90/cngplp/cngplpmod'
/bin/sh ../libtool  --tag=CC   --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I..    -Wall -O2 -fPIC -DDRIVER_TYPE_UFR2 -march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fno-plt -fexceptions         -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 -Wformat -Werror=format-security         -fstack-clash-protection -fcf-protection         -fno-omit-frame-pointer -mno-omit-leaf-frame-pointer -flto=auto -MT execjob.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/execjob.Tpo -c -o execjob.lo execjob.c
libtool: compile:  gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -Wall -O2 -fPIC -DDRIVER_TYPE_UFR2 -march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fno-plt -fexceptions -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 -Wformat -Werror=format-security -fstack-clash-protection -fcf-protection -fno-omit-frame-pointer -mno-omit-leaf-frame-pointer -flto=auto -MT execjob.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/execjob.Tpo -c execjob.c  -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/execjob.o
execjob.c: In function 'util_encodeBase64':
execjob.c:146:24: warning: variable 'pTmpSrc' set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]
  146 |         unsigned char *pTmpSrc = NULL;
      |                        ^~~~~~~
execjob.c: In function 'make_ppd_param':
execjob.c:718:31: warning: unused variable 'val' [-Wunused-variable]
  718 |                         char *val;
      |                               ^~~
execjob.c:1164:108: error: passing argument 3 of 'add_param_int' makes integer from pointer without a cast [-Wint-conversion]
 1164 |                                 num = add_param_int(ptr_param, kPPD_Items_CNJobResultNoticeAddress, ppd_opt->job_result_notice_address);
      |                                                                                                     ~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
      |                                                                                                            |
      |                                                                                                            char *
execjob.c:431:53: note: expected 'int' but argument is of type 'char *'
  431 | int add_param_int(char **ptr_param, char *name, int value)

@userfriendly

As suggestion/idea - maybe add cngplp2 (settings utility) and cnsetuputil2 (maybe with a 'sudo' in front of it) as Xdg-menu-entries. I would offer to have these gui-tools from the menu of your desktop.

I forgot to answer , will look at adding .desktop files for those.

Aur packages assume that base-devel is installed, and automake is a dependency of base-devel.

see https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_User_Repository#Prerequisites

Looks like automake should also be added to the dependencies list. Hit a build issue on a fresh install that was still missing it but had all the other dependencies.

@agomonos : The folders were actually created in package() , but removed later by makepkg because they were empty.

I changed options= to keep empty directories and remove 1 unnecessary empty dir (/usr/include) manually.

Hi, I encountered some errors using id/job accounting. The problem resides in the folder "/etc/cngplp2/account" and "/etc/cngplp2/account/options/" not created by the package. These are used to store the configuration for root and users. I solved the problem by creating the folders with group sys so that cnjp* programs can access it and create the files with id/password. Since the files are created by the users the folders needs to have write right. I think that the pkgbuild needs to include the creation of these folders.