Gimp-print vs gutenprint

Hi folks, i have a problem printing from gimp: he says that the print plugin is broken...i've looked into the pacman.log and i found gimp-print has been removed by gutenprint...
Is that normal?
Gimp Error

thx man
following your discorver i've tried to recompile gutenprint without the flag but it gives me an error:
make[4]: Entering directory `/var/abs/system/gutenprint/src/gutenprint-5.0.0/src/gutenprintui2'
make[4]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[4]: Leaving directory `/var/abs/system/gutenprint/src/gutenprint-5.0.0/src/gutenprintui2'
/bin/sh ../../libtool --tag=CC --mode=link gcc -march=i686 -O2 -pipe -o print print-image-gimp.o print.o print-print.o -lgimpui-2.0 -lgimpwidgets-2.0 -lgimp-2.0 -lgimpmath-2.0 -lgimpcolor-2.0 -lgimpbase-2.0 -lgtk-x11-2.0 -lgdk-x11-2.0 -latk-1.0 -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lm -lpangocairo-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lcairo -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -ldl -lglib-2.0 ../../src/gutenprintui2/libgutenprintui2.la
mkdir .libs
libtool: link: cannot find the library `../../src/gutenprintui2/libgutenprintui2.la' or unhandled argument `../../src/gutenprintui2/libgutenprintui2.la'
make[3]: *** [print] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/abs/system/gutenprint/src/gutenprint-5.0.0/src/gimp2'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/abs/system/gutenprint/src/gutenprint-5.0.0/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/abs/system/gutenprint/src/gutenprint-5.0.0'
make: *** [all] Error 2
in the meanwhile i'll try to discover what is the cause of this problem.

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