Re: [ptxdist] ptxdist-2013.01.0 Cups support required but cups-config notlocated. Make sure cups-devel related files are installed.

[Alexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 03:08:06PM +0300, Bilal TAŞ wrote:
>  
> 
> Hello 
> 
> I'm trying build cups with ptxdist-2013.01.0. I see this
> error, Do you have any idea ? 
> 

No you compiling samba here. Samba uses cups (libcups) to provide a
windows printer share, that's why configure fails. Because samba can't
find the libcups and dev files, etc...

I remember that cups has a buildsystem which isn't made for cross compiling.
You need to change the buildsystem to cross compiling it.


Another solution would be a cross compiling sandbox system like
scratchbox [0]. I don't know what's the state of this project is and you
need to do the same effort like to fix cups buildsystem for cross compiling.

It's difficult to handle with scratchbox, but it can handle better
buildsystem which are not made for cross compiling. 

Example "replacing /usr/bin/gcc with cross compiler instead setting env", I
think ptxdist set CC variables or something else only.

For example if a Makefile contains the call "gcc -o bar foo.c" it will
call the gcc from your PATH. This is not cross compile friendly. Correct
would be a "$(CC) -o bar foo.c" - which is cross compile friendly
because you can change the compile call.

I don't want to say scratchbox is better than ptxdist, it's only another
solution to cross compile software which are not made to cross compile and
when you will merge ptxdist and scratchbox I think you can forget it anyway.
("it's for experts only").

> ---------------------
> target:
> samba.prepare
> ---------------------

not cups here, it's samba.

- Alex

[0] http://www.scratchbox.org/

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