176960 - Xprint module missing on AIX

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core Graveyard :: Printing: Xprint, defect)

Description

[Art Vedas]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0

I do not get any XPrint driver printers listed in the print window with AIX Mozilla.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. configure XPrint server like on Linux/Solaris
2. run XPrint server
3. set XPSERVERLIST var to XPrint server
4. start mozilla
5. open print window
Actual Results:  
No printers except Postscript/default.

Expected Results:  
Lots of printers for the XPrint driver.

Comment 1

[Roland Mainz]

Mhhh, there is no components/libgfxxprint.so in that distribution, but it is not
a RPM build (that would be bug 133534 ("Xprint support not available in RPM
builds")).

I guess the AIX version used to build the distribution misses libXp.a (which is
a requirement for building the Xprint module).

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Over to "build config" for now.

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cls:
Who build the AIX release ?

Comment 2

[Mary Hoetzel]

This is the AIX Netscape 7 built by IBM. 
The Xprint Xserver extension was added to AIX 5.2 which was just released.
There are still some problems with Xprint in AIX Mozilla/Netscape 7 and we ran
out of time to fix them. Therefore, it is not enabled yet. It is something we
need to work on now. Once it is solved, Xprint can be enabled in both, Mozilla
and Netscape 7.
I will update this defect with the current status because I think we need some
help from Roland to figure out what's wrong :-)  

Comment 3

[Roland Mainz]

Mary Hoetzel wrote:
> This is the AIX Netscape 7 built by IBM. 
> The Xprint Xserver extension was added to AIX 5.2 which was just released.
> There are still some problems with Xprint in AIX Mozilla/Netscape 7 and we ran
> out of time to fix them. Therefore, it is not enabled yet.

AFAIK the problems are all at the server side, right ?
This bug report is only related to the client-side (Mozilla); AFAIK the client
side X11 extension library libXp.so/.a is bug-free (assuming you're using
X11R6.6 :) - therefore it won't hurt to enable it now (users could use an Xprt
build from the http://xprint.mozdev.org/ sources (Xprt itself seems to
build&work on AIX, too), use an existing Linux/Solaris Xprt for now) or use a
Xprt server remotely.

Remember that fixes/enhanchements to Xprt (Xprint server-side) automagically
"upgrade" all applications which use it (e.g. existing Mozilla1.0 binaries can
print with Truetype fonts when Xprt gets upgraded etc.), so even if your AIX
Xprt server it buggy the client-side apps. does not have to worry about it (e.g.
development of client and server side is independent).

What about dropping-in libXp.a on AIX (e.g. link libXp.a statically or ship the
library with the Mozilla distribition) and rebuilding the release tarball ?

Comment 4

[hacker formerly known as [e-mail]]

We need a separate component for distribution issues.  Back to XPrint.

Comment 5

[Mary Hoetzel]

The upcoming Mozilla 1.2 for AIX will be statically linked with libXp.a.  

Comment 6

[Roland Mainz]

Mary Hoetzel wrote:
> The upcoming Mozilla 1.2 for AIX will be statically linked with libXp.a.

What about marking the client-side library libXp.a available on older AIX
releases, too (AFAIK it can't hurt - the library is small and don't affect
anything except Xprint :) ?

Comment 7

[Roland Mainz]

Reassigning bug to Mary Hoetzel from IBM...

Comment 8

[Roland Mainz]

Note that I filed bug 183093 ("Add "configure"-option to link libXp statically
(e.g. libXp.a instead of libXp.so)") to get a general-purpose build flag for
such cases...

Comment 9

[Bjørn Kutter]

Has there been any progress on this bug?

Comment 10

[Mary Hoetzel]

Mozilla 1.3b for AIX that's now available has been statically linked with
libXp.a. This is a temporary solution until we have figured out how to provide
libXp.a separately.
Not sure what I should do with this defect now. Should it stay open until
libXp.a is available? Making libXp.a available is not really a Mozilla bug.

Comment 11

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

This is not blocking development.
severity -> major

Comment 12

[Jesse Ruderman]

XPrint support is gone.  See bug 326716.