Here are some notes on what I had to do to sucessfully install 1.9.45 (Max OS X 10.5.6):

In cupsppd.c I had to remove the #ifdef __SVR4 on line 510 (and 528) because otherwise gcc gave the following warning:
cupsppd.c:557: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘getline’

and when importing cups in python I got the following error:
>>> import cups
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “”, line 1, in
ImportError: dlopen(/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cups.so, 2): Symbol not found: _getline
Referenced from: /usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cups.so
Expected in: dynamic lookup

Furthermore I had to add LDFLAGS=-liconv to line 12 in the Makefile. Then after a make and make install I had to manually copy cups.so from the source directory to its install location:
sudo cp pycups-1.9.45/cups.so /usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cups.so

Indeed, as I said in a previous post, pycups-1.9.45/cups.so and pycups-1.9.45/build/lib.macosx-10.3-i386-2.6/cups.so seem to differ:
> cmp pycups-1.9.45/cups.so pycups-1.9.45/build/lib.macosx-10.3-i386-2.6/cups.so
pycups-1.9.45/cups.so pycups-1.9.45/build/lib.macosx-10.3-i386-2.6/cups.so differ: char 17, line 1

I hope this can be of some help to others.

cups.require(“1.9.39″)

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “pycups-1.9.30/cupstree.py”, line 2, in
import cups
ImportError: dlopen(/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cups.so, 2): Symbol not found: _libiconv
Referenced from: /usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cups.so
Expected in: dynamic lookup

I noticed that I was able to import cups if I launched python while standing in the source directory where the freshly build cups.so can be found. So I manually copied cups.so to /usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages and now I am able to import cups regardless of where it’s started from. Indeed, running cmp on the cups.so that is created by make install and the cups.so that is created by make shows the files are not identical:

> cmp /usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cups.so /Users/kajic/stuff/kek/pycups-1.9.30/cups.so
/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cups.so /Users/kajic/stuff/kek/pycups-1.9.30/cups.so differ: char 17, line 1

How can this be?

However, for this particular case it looks like it needs an autoconf check, which means that it needs to start using autoconf.

Makefile.diff
14c14
env LDFLAGS=-liconv CFLAGS=-DVERSION=\\\”$(VERSION)\\\” python setup.py build

cupsppd.c.diff
25a26
> #include
54a56,65
> char *
> strndup(char *src, size_t n)
> {
> char *dst = malloc(n);
>
> if (!dst)
> exit(1);
> return strncpy(dst, src, n);
> }
>
480,481c491
file);
if (!fgets(line, linelen, self->file))

After making the application if I run the example I get: undefined symbol: libiconv. I have libiconv 2.4.0 installed

Any idea?