[gentoo-user] CUPS and old java (commercial software)

[Helmut Jarausch]

Hi,

I'm in need to use some commercial software (Matlab and Maple) which
come with their own (probably old) version of Java.

Now, both of those software packages cannot print, they don't see any
CUPS printer UNLESS I remove the symlink /usr/lib/libcups.so which
points to libcups.so.2

But some GenToo packages do need that link, e.g. x11-lib/qt-gui won't
install unless that link is there.

I remember there is a bug with older versions of Java accessing CUPS,
and probably my commercial packages contain such an old version.

Does anybody know how to fix or circumvent this.
(Currently I have to remove the symlink when using one of these
commercial packages and reinstall it afterwards, but ... for a normal
user without root priviledges that's not possible unless I write an SUID
script)

Thanks for any hints,

Helmut Jarausch

Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik
RWTH - Aachen University
D 52056 Aachen, Germany