RE: [Syllable-developer] Advanced Builder fu

[Kristian V. D. V. <va...@li...>]

On Sat, 28 Jan 2006 01:04:18 +0100, "Kaj de Vos" <syl...@fr...> wrote:
>> Kristian Van Der Vliet wrote:
>>> <snip>
>> 
>> Replying to yourself is bad form but this is all related.
>> I want gutenprint to build into the CUPS directory; /usr/cups
> 
> Is there no other way to do it? I know there are situations with some 
> packages where they're much too close with other packages this way, but it 
> makes for quite a mess.

The thing is Gutenprint will dump half of its files in the CUPS directory
anyway; the PPDs, the RIP filter, EPSON & HP control plugins; pretty
much all the useful stuff.  So I figure we may as well put the rest of
Gutenprint in with CUPS; that pretty much means escputil (Manages
EPSON printers; ink level, that sort of stuff) and a few other misc. files.

> > The recipe has:
> > 
> > configure-prefix   --prefix=/usr/cups
> > 
> > But when Builder runs configure it does:
> > 
> > ./configure --prefix=/usr/cups/usr/gutenprint [other options]
> > 
> > which isn't exactly what I want :)  Is there anyway to force
> > Builder to do --prefix=/usr/cups?
> 
> That would be because you would have to use configure-args instead, as 
> tersely specified in skeleton.recipe. See the OCaml recipe for an example. 
> However, it makes Builder loose control over the prefix, so for example 
> it's not possible anymore to compile GutenPrint to run from a staging 
> area.

Ah, then that would be a problem.
 
> Does the GutenPrint source really need the CUPS source to compile? 
> Otherwise you could use the new move-files directive to just move the 
> build result into CUPS or some other place where CUPS can find it.

It needs libcups & libcupsimage (& their headers) but doesn't need
the source.

It might be possible to use the move-files directive but again, we'll
have issues with building in the staging area.  I'll have to give
this some more thought :)
 
> Ultimately, packages shouldn't want to be intertwined this way. Builder 
> should compile them separately and they should find eachother.

Yeah, but in this case Gutenprint is a CUPS driver and intertwines
itself with CUPS anyway.

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