Wheres that Xerox WC 3215 ?

[cochisek]

2.0.2 claims Xerox WC 3215 support, but there's no "wc3215.ppd" (mentioned in "xerox.drv.in") anywhere - neither in the file list nor after building.
Is there something more to be done?

[ValdikSS]

The PPD files in this repository is a relic from the past, they are not getting updated or regenerated, and should not be used. I should delete them I guess.

All the actual information is contained in *.drv files, which are generated from *.drv.in files with make drv, and PPD files could be generated from these *.drv files with make ppd, if necessary.

You don't need a *.ppd files per se, the *.drv file could be copied to /usr/share/cups/drv/[optional additional directory].
make install should handle all of that. Yes, i see that INSTALL does not mention these make targets, should be improved as well.

TL;DR: make ppd

[ValdikSS]

the ppd-s aren't installed properly by "make install" - some are, some not (e.g. mine WC 3215), many aren't installed to proper printer vendor categories, but at the top-level and it isn't clear to which printers they apply

Hrm, it should be, I'll take a look.

Printer Options are in Portuguese

Have you chosen pt_BR version of ppd?

there's a lot of unavoidable "make install" errors of this kind: "install: cannot stat 'm2020.ppd': No such file or directory"

It's also a relic from the past, nobody really should be using make install in the distros other than Slackware ;)

I've only improved the code of the filter itself, haven't touched build system yet at all, it's as it was 20 years ago.

[ValdikSS]

Could it be you have a cached PPDs, that's why your wc3215 was missing in the selection? I don't see anything wrong with the makefile.

Check ls -la /usr/share/cups/model/xerox/wc3215.ppd

There's also an option to install only *.drv files: make install DRV_ONLY=1

[tillkamppeter]

@ValdikSS Note that modern distros also use make install but not to install into the actual system. They create the file system of the binary package which is delivered to the user. For this, one usually runs ./configure --prefix=... and make DESTDIR=... install. So we need to take care that make install works correctly.

[ValdikSS]

@tillkamppeter yes, that should work correctly, everything is DESTDIR-prefixed as far as I could see.

[cochisek]

Have you chosen pt_BR version of ppd?

Yes, because the "wc3215pt_BR.ppd" is the only one built.

Could it be you have a cached PPDs, that's why your wc3215 was missing in the selection?

Perhaps... - I build using defaults:

+---------------------------------------------+
|      COMPILATION PARAMETERS SUMMARY         |
+---------------------------------------------+
|      THREADS     =  enabled                 |
|      THREADS Nr  =        2                 |
|      CACHESIZE   =       30                 |
|      JBIG        =  enabled                 |
|      BLACK OPTIM =  enabled                 |
|      DRV ONLY    = disabled                 |
+---------------------------------------------+

Is it this caching (CACHESIZE = 30) you're talking about? - if so, why would existence of "wc3215.ppd" depend on it?

Check ls -la /usr/share/cups/model/xerox/wc3215.ppd

It's absent, but that "wc3215pt_BR.ppd" is there. Nonetheless, I can't select it in the system Add Printer dialog - I chose to point it to the PPD file in build location.

[ValdikSS]

Yes, because the "wc3215pt_BR.ppd" is the only one built.

Hrm, how do you build, how do you check?

Is it this caching (CACHESIZE = 30) you're talking about? - if so, why would existence of "wc3215.ppd" depend on it?

No, I'm talking about CUPS PPD cache, see /var/cache/cups/, ppds.dat specifically. Sometimes adding new PPD file requires cups restart. That's why I thought that's the case.

It's absent, but that "wc3215pt_BR.ppd" is there.

Are you referring to the absence of the file in splix/ppd directory, or after installation?

It's definitely there with the default makefile, see the Github Actions output.

splix/.github/workflows/build.yml

Lines 65 to 66 in 4854286

	make DRV_ONLY=1 -j4
	make ppd

If you want just to use SpliX, you can get the version from Github actions. It's compiled to be run on any distribution (as long as it's x86_64).

[cochisek]

Which OS are you running?

Lubuntu 26.04.1 LTS (Resolute Raccoon)

[ValdikSS]

rm ppd/1100*.ppd
make ppd

Does it produce wc3215.ppd? If yes, something went wrong the first time and this wrong result has been cached. ppd/1100.ppd is used as a cache marker (first PPD ever built), and ppd/1100fr.ppd and other languages is a language PPD cache marker.

[cochisek]

Yes! - this time it's there!
BUT, before my previous post I started from a fresh Splix package, so, there should be no such caching issue.

[cochisek]

This one, yes.

I downloaded it, added my printer again pointing to the "wc3215.ppd" there, and it works! Seems like all that fuss with building it wasn't necessary at all. Sorry for bothering you! - I didn't know I can download a custom build.

Ideally, you'd want to build a package.

Yeah, this archive doesn't seem to have any Makefile in it.

[cochisek]

OK, now after I have that "wc3215.ppd" built (in the orig source package), the "sudo make install" did the job! - the sys knows about more printers, including Xerox WorkCentre 3215 and other.
Many thanks!