Did you try to install cups through pkgsrc or by simply downloading
and compiling the sources yourself?  I suspect your problem is due to
not using GNU make during the build and installation.

     -- Johnny C. Lam <lamj@stat.cmu.edu>
        Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University
        http://www.stat.cmu.edu/~lamj/

Sanesh Bodasing <saneshb@cat.co.za> writes:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I downloaded CUPS 1.1.4 but am having a problem during the 'make install'',
> i'm using NetBSD1.4.2. The error is shown below:
> 
> installing in cups...
> installing in backend...
> installing in berkley...
> installing in cgi-bin...
> installing in filter...
> installing in man...
> CAT1EXT: not found
> CAT1EXT: not found
> CAT1EXT: not found
> CAT1EXT: not found
> CAT1EXT: not found
> CAT1EXT: not found
> CAT1EXT: not found
> CAT1EXT: not found
> cp: backend.: No such file or directory
> cp: lpr.: No such file or directory
> cp: lprm.: No such file or directory
> cp: lpq.: No such file or directory
> cp: filter.: No such file or directory
> cp: lpstat.: No such file or directory
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop
> *** Error code 1
> 
> 
> 
> the error seems to be with the man pages, but I have no idea how to 
> fix it! Any help will be greatly appreciated.I tried downloading CUPS1.0.5 but 
> get the same error.
> 
> 
> Best Regards,
> Sanesh Bodasing
> CAT
> South Africa