libreoffice can't print to lpd/lp printers

[Steve Kargl]

On Sun, Jul 07, 2013 at 08:48:02PM -0600, Warren Block wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Jul 2012, Steve Kargl wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 06:03:42AM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> >> On 2012-Jul-24 10:03:41 -0700, Steve Kargl <sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote:
> >>> If one builds libreoffice and one does not use CUPS,
> >>> then libreoffice will not print to an lpd/lp printer.
> >>> This worked with older versins of this port.  One
> >>> can find a thread about this problem at
> >>>
> >>> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentfoundation.libreoffice.user/19782
> >>>
> >>> To fix the problem, the Makefile needs to be changed
> >>> with the following patch.  After rebuilding libreoffice
> >>> with the patch, I can again print to lpd/lp without
> >>> a problem.
> >>
> >> See http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=167441
> >> amongst others
> >>
> >
> > Thanks for the pointer.  I was not aware that others
> > have reported the problem.  Heck, I'm just happy that
> > libreoffice again builds on amd64.
> 
> A followup to this year-old thread...  LibreOffice (again) does not like 
> BSD lpr/lpd again, dumping core when printing is attempted.
> 
> That is without setting up a printer, because 
> /usr/local/lib/libreoffice/program/spadmin says
> 
>    No printers can be installed, because the file system is read-only.
>    Please contact your system administrator.
> 
> As is traditional with error messages, it does not mention any 
> information which might help the user solve the situation, like which 
> directory is read-only.
> 
> It may just be that a directory is missing.  Certainly truss says that 
> spadmin is looking for lots and lots of directories, but I don't know 
> how to identify which one is the problem, or whether that really is the 
> problem.
> 
> Any ideas?

Just upgraded to the newest version of libreoffice, but have
yet to try to print.  I've recently started to print/export 
to pdf, and then use xpdf or acroread to print to hardcopy.

-- 
Steve