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.