'cups-config --libs' gives spurious output

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

Trying to compile my own software which links against libcupsys2.

Normally, to get the libraries needed to link CUPS one would do 'cups-config --libs', but in Gutsy, this gives:

    -lcups -L/usr/lib -g -Wall -O2 -I/usr/include/dbus-1.0 -I/usr/lib/dbus-1.0/include -DDBUS_API_SUBJECT_TO_CHANGE -lgssapi_krb5 -lkrb5 -lk5crypto -lcom_err -lgnutls -lz -lpthread -lm -lcrypt

which should not contain any of this:

    -g -Wall -O2 -I/usr/include/dbus-1.0 -I/usr/lib/dbus-1.0/include -DDBUS_API_SUBJECT_TO_CHANGE

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Is this symptom still reproducible in 8.10?

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.

[Evan Martin (Chromium) (evan-chromium)]

This still happens on my Natty machine.

$ dpkg -s libcups2-dev | grep Version
Version: 1.4.6-5ubuntu1.3

$ for i in cflags ldflags libs; do echo -n "$i: "; cups-config --$i; done
cflags:
ldflags:
libs: -lcups -L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu -g -O2 -g -O2 -I/usr/include/dbus-1.0 -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dbus-1.0/include -DDBUS_API_SUBJECT_TO_CHANGE -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -lgssapi_krb5 -lkrb5 -lk5crypto -lcom_err -L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu -lgnutls -L/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu -lgcrypt -lz -lm -lcrypt

The -I flags belong in cflags, the -L flags belong in ldflags.