gimp-print-devel

[Gimp-print-devel] CUPS builds

[Robert K. <rl...@al...>]

I'm considering making --with-cups be the default (as opposed to
automatic), and if CUPS development bits aren't present, erroring
out.  One would need to specify --without-cups explicitly to do a
build without CUPS.

This is because it seems to be pretty common for people to try to
build Gutenprint without CUPS, and then wonder why it isn't being
installed.

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Robert Krawitz                                     <rl...@al...>

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Re: [Gimp-print-devel] CUPS builds

[Solomon P. <pi...@sh...>]

On Sun, Jun 09, 2019 at 04:09:13PM -0400, Robert Krawitz wrote:
> I'm considering making --with-cups be the default (as opposed to
> automatic), and if CUPS development bits aren't present, erroring
> out.  One would need to specify --without-cups explicitly to do a
> build without CUPS.

I think this is a good idea!

 - Solomon
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Re: [Gimp-print-devel] CUPS builds

[Greg T. <gd...@le...>]

Robert Krawitz <rl...@al...> writes:

> I'm considering making --with-cups be the default (as opposed to
> automatic), and if CUPS development bits aren't present, erroring
> out.  One would need to specify --without-cups explicitly to do a
> build without CUPS.
>
> This is because it seems to be pretty common for people to try to
> build Gutenprint without CUPS, and then wonder why it isn't being
> installed.

Sounds good to me.  In general, I lean to having the build be determined
by what arguments are passed, erroring out if not doable, rather than
having different outcomes based on the presence or absence of things.

Re: [Gimp-print-devel] CUPS builds

[Robert K. <rl...@al...>]

On Sun, 9 Jun 2019 17:27:28 -0400, Solomon Peachy wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 09, 2019 at 04:09:13PM -0400, Robert Krawitz wrote:
>> I'm considering making --with-cups be the default (as opposed to
>> automatic), and if CUPS development bits aren't present, erroring
>> out.  One would need to specify --without-cups explicitly to do a
>> build without CUPS.
>
> I think this is a good idea!

I just pushed this, with an error message that I think is impossible
to avoid (and it halts the configure run immediately) and I believe to
be unambiguous.
-- 
Robert Krawitz                                     <rl...@al...>

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Member of the League for Programming Freedom  --  http://ProgFree.org
Project lead for Gutenprint   --    http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net

"Linux doesn't dictate how I work, I dictate how Linux works."
--Eric Crampton