#597 Gutenprint ipk package for OpenWRT (GL-iNet AR750) failed to compile

[Khurram]

Hello,

I am trying to create an ipk package using gutenprint for OpenWRT. More specifically for use with the GL-iNet AR750. I am running Ubuntu 20.04 and have set up an OpenWRT build environment (using the instructions at https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-developer/helloworld/start)

Here is what I did to create the ipk package for gutenprint:
- Downloaded the gutenprint-5.3.3.tar.xz package and extracted it using file explorer (in the locationo /home/ubuntu20/gutenprint-5.3.3)
- Opened terminal in extracted folder and configured gutenprint using "./configure --enable-cups-ppds" and installed "libusb" (sudo apt-get install libusb-1.0-0-dev) to enable dyesub USB backend
- Then ran "make" and "sudo make install"

• I created a Makefile (will attach in comment if possible) which is stored in the directory "/home/ubuntu20/mypackages/printing/gutenprint-5.3.3" and also installed (or save their respective Makefile's in "mypackages") some required dependencies (libcups2-dev, libpam, net-snmp and xz).

• The SOURCE_DIR in the Makefile is /home/ubuntu20/gutenprint-5.3.3

• in the OpenWRT build environment I ran "./scripts/feeds update mypackages" and "./scripts/feeds install -a -p mypackages" both of which run successfully (ending with the message "Installing all packages from feed mypackages"). Note I have created the feeds.conf file as indicated here (https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-developer/helloworld/chapter4) and specified mypackages feed.

• I then run "make menuconfig" and able to find my device (Target system: "Atheros ATH79", Subtarget="Generic", Target Progile="GL-iNet GL-AR750"). I am also able to include the gutenprint package in the configuration (in printing > the highlight "gutenprint" and press "y") --> everything runs as expected up to this point

---- Here is where I'm running into problems :
- When I run "make package/gutenprint-5.3.3/compile -j1 V=s" (similar to the steps here https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-developer/helloworld/chapter5) I get the error in the attached file. How can I resolve this?

I am thinking something is not right with the Makefile or its missing something. It seems I can only attach 1 file per post, so I will try to attach the Makefile with a comment.

Any help would be appreciated. Thank you

[Khurram]

Here is the gutenprint-5.3.3 Makefile that I am using. Stored in /home/ubuntu20/mypackages/printing/gutenprint-5.3.3

[Robert Krawitz]

Do you have output from make within the Gutenprint source tree? I have no experience with OpenWRT.

[Khurram]

I'm quite new to all of this, so I'm not exactly sure how to do that. But replacing $(eval $(call BuildPackage,...)) with $(error $(call BuildPackage,...)) seems to output a lot more details (attached file)

This method is suggested by a commenter here https://forum.openwrt.org/t/debugging-package-makefile/13764/3.

But when I replace "eval" with "error" in the Makefile, I get an error when trying to update and install the feed

EDIT: if I update the package feeds twice, the error asking to fix the Makefile goes away

[Robert Krawitz]

Can you cd into the root of the Gutenprint source tree and run make there directly (after running configure)?

[Khurram]

Yes I can run "Make" after configure in the root of Gutenprint. Here is the result while configuring:

ubuntu20@ubuntu20-VirtualBox:~/gutenprint-5.3.3$ ./configure --enable-cups-ppds
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /usr/bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether make supports nested variables... yes
checking whether UID '1000' is supported by ustar format... yes
checking whether GID '1000' is supported by ustar format... yes
checking how to create a ustar tar archive... gnutar
checking whether make supports nested variables... (cached) yes
checking build system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
checking how to print strings... printf
checking whether make supports the include directive... yes (GNU style)
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables... 
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking whether gcc understands -c and -o together... yes
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /usr/bin/sed
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /usr/bin/grep
checking for egrep... /usr/bin/grep -E
checking for fgrep... /usr/bin/grep -F
checking for ld used by gcc... /usr/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking for BSD- or MS-compatible name lister (nm)... /usr/bin/nm -B
checking the name lister (/usr/bin/nm -B) interface... BSD nm
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 1572864
checking how to convert x86_64-pc-linux-gnu file names to x86_64-pc-linux-gnu format... func_convert_file_noop
checking how to convert x86_64-pc-linux-gnu file names to toolchain format... func_convert_file_noop
checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r
checking for objdump... objdump
checking how to recognize dependent libraries... pass_all
checking for dlltool... no
checking how to associate runtime and link libraries... printf %s\n
checking for ar... ar
checking for archiver @FILE support... @
checking for strip... strip
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output from gcc object... ok
checking for sysroot... no
checking for a working dd... /usr/bin/dd
checking how to truncate binary pipes... /usr/bin/dd bs=4096 count=1
checking for mt... mt
checking if mt is a manifest tool... no
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking for dlfcn.h... yes
checking for objdir... .libs
checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... no
checking for gcc option to produce PIC... -fPIC -DPIC
checking if gcc PIC flag -fPIC -DPIC works... yes
checking if gcc static flag -static works... yes
checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes
checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... (cached) yes
checking whether the gcc linker (/usr/bin/ld -m elf_x86_64) supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... no
checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so
checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes
checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build static libraries... yes
./configure: line 9255: dlopen: command not found
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking for cups-config... /usr/bin/cups-config
checking whether to whether to build CUPS driver... (automatic)
checking whether NLS is requested... yes
checking for msgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt
checking for gmsgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt
checking for xgettext... /usr/bin/xgettext
checking for msgmerge... /usr/bin/msgmerge
checking for ld used by GCC... /usr/bin/ld -m elf_x86_64
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld -m elf_x86_64) is GNU ld... yes
checking for shared library run path origin... done
checking for CFPreferencesCopyAppValue... no
checking for CFLocaleCopyCurrent... no
checking for GNU gettext in libc... yes
checking whether to use NLS... yes
checking where the gettext function comes from... libc
checking whether to build CUPS PPD files... (automatic)
checking whether to build CUPS PPD files... yes
checking whether to build CUPS 1.2 enhancements... yes
checking whether to build translated CUPS PPD files... yes
checking whether to build globalized CUPS PPD files... yes
checking whether to build simplified CUPS PPD files... no
checking whether to place CUPS PPD files at top level... no
checking whether to generate PostScript level 3 PPD files... yes
checking whether to build a statically-linked cups-genppd and rastertogutenprint.  WARNING: Please read the README and NEWS (release notes) CAREFULLY before using --disable-static-genppd!... yes
checking whether to enable loadable modules... (automatic)
checking whether to turn on debugging in build... no
checking whether to turn on profiling in build... no
checking whether to use readline... yes
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
checking for libusb-1.0... yes
checking whether to install GIMP plugin in home directory... no
checking for gimptool-2.0... no
checking for gtk+-2.0... no
checking whether to build GIMP 2.x Print plugin... no
checking whether to name GIMP 2.x Print plugin gutenprint (requires GIMP 2.2; normally used with GIMP 2.4 or above)... (automatic)
checking whether to build Gutenprint GTK+-2.0 user interface library... no
checking whether to install sample images... yes
checking whether to build escputil... yes
checking whether to build test programs... yes
checking whether to build Gutenprint documentation... yes
checking whether to build testpattern generator... yes
checking for iconv... yes
checking for library containing strerror... none required
checking for gawk... (cached) gawk
checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... (cached) none needed
checking whether gcc understands -c and -o together... (cached) yes
checking dependency style of gcc... (cached) gcc3
checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... (cached) none needed
checking whether gcc understands -c and -o together... (cached) yes
checking dependency style of gcc... (cached) gcc3
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking for flex... no
checking for lex... no
checking for bison... no
checking for byacc... no
checking for test... /usr/bin/test
checking for true... /usr/bin/true
checking for find... /usr/bin/find
checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
checking for glib-mkenums... no
checking for convert... no
checking for bash... /usr/bin/bash
checking for texi2html... no
checking for dvips... no
checking for db2pdf... no
checking for dvipdf... /usr/bin/dvipdf
checking for db2ps... no
checking for db2html... no
checking for doxygen... no
checking for xz... /usr/bin/xz
checking for gzip... /usr/bin/gzip
checking for bzip2... /usr/bin/bzip2
checking for lrzip... no
checking for rzip... no
checking for zpaq... no
checking for bash... /bin/bash
checking if gcc supports -Wall... yes
checking if gcc supports -Wcast-align... yes
checking if gcc supports -Wstrict-prototypes... no
checking if gcc supports -Wmissing-prototypes... yes
checking if gcc supports -Wmissing-declarations... yes
checking if gcc supports -Wnested-externs... yes
checking if gcc supports -Wwrite-strings... yes
checking if gcc supports -Werror-implicit-function-declaration... yes
checking if gcc supports -Winline... yes
checking if gcc supports -Wformat=2... yes
checking if gcc supports -finline-limit=131072... yes
checking if gcc supports -Wformat... yes
checking if gcc supports -Werror=format-security... yes
checking if gcc supports -Wmissing-prototypes... yes
checking if gcc supports -O3... yes
checking if gcc supports __attribute__ syntax... yes
checking for readline in -lreadline... no
checking for readline in -lreadline... no
checking for readline in -lreadline... no
checking for readline in -lreadline... no
checking for lt_dlopen in -lltdl... yes
checking for dlopen in -ldl... yes
checking for pow in -lm... yes
checking for pow in -lm... (cached) yes
checking for gzgets in -lz... yes
checking for cups-config... /usr/bin/cups-config
checking for ANSI C header files... (cached) yes
checking getopt.h usability... yes
checking getopt.h presence... yes
checking for getopt.h... yes
checking readline/readline.h usability... no
checking readline/readline.h presence... no
checking for readline/readline.h... no
checking for dlfcn.h... (cached) yes
checking fcntl.h usability... yes
checking fcntl.h presence... yes
checking for fcntl.h... yes
checking limits.h usability... yes
checking limits.h presence... yes
checking for limits.h... yes
checking locale.h usability... yes
checking locale.h presence... yes
checking for locale.h... yes
checking ltdl.h usability... yes
checking ltdl.h presence... yes
checking for ltdl.h... yes
checking stdarg.h usability... yes
checking stdarg.h presence... yes
checking for stdarg.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... (cached) yes
checking for string.h... (cached) yes
checking sys/time.h usability... yes
checking sys/time.h presence... yes
checking for sys/time.h... yes
checking for sys/types.h... (cached) yes
checking time.h usability... yes
checking time.h presence... yes
checking for time.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes
checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes
checking for inline... inline
checking for off_t... yes
checking for size_t... yes
checking for nanosleep... yes
checking for poll... yes
checking for usleep... yes
checking for getopt_long... yes
checking for library containing finite... none required
checking which module system will be used... dlopen
checking that generated files are newer than configure... done
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating doc/Makefile
config.status: creating doc/gutenprint.dox
config.status: creating doc/gutenprintui2.dox
config.status: creating doc/developer/Makefile
config.status: creating include/Makefile
config.status: creating include/gutenprint/Makefile
config.status: creating include/gutenprintui2/Makefile
config.status: creating include/gutenprint/gutenprint-version.h
config.status: creating man/Makefile
config.status: creating man/cups-calibrate.8
config.status: creating man/cups-genppd.8
config.status: creating man/cups-genppdupdate.8
config.status: creating man/escputil.1
config.status: creating po/Makefile.in
config.status: creating samples/Makefile
config.status: creating src/Makefile
config.status: creating src/cups/Makefile
config.status: creating src/cups/Info.plist
config.status: creating src/cups/cups-genppdupdate
config.status: creating src/cups/test-ppds.test
config.status: creating src/cups/min-pagesize
config.status: creating src/escputil/Makefile
config.status: creating src/testpattern/compare-image-files
config.status: creating src/testpattern/run-testpattern
config.status: creating src/testpattern/run-testpattern-1.test
config.status: creating src/testpattern/run-testpattern-2
config.status: creating src/testpattern/run-testpattern-2.test
config.status: creating src/testpattern/compare-checksums
config.status: creating src/testpattern/compress-checksums
config.status: creating src/cups/test-rastertogutenprint
config.status: creating src/cups/test-rastertogutenprint.test
config.status: creating src/testpattern/Makefile
config.status: creating src/gimp2/Makefile
config.status: creating src/main/Makefile
config.status: creating src/main/gutenprint.pc
config.status: creating src/xml/Makefile
config.status: creating src/xml/dither/Makefile
config.status: creating src/xml/papers/Makefile
config.status: creating src/xml/printers/Makefile
config.status: creating src/xml/escp2/Makefile
config.status: creating src/xml/escp2/media/Makefile
config.status: creating src/xml/escp2/mediasizes/Makefile
config.status: creating src/xml/escp2/model/Makefile
config.status: creating src/xml/escp2/model/base/Makefile
config.status: creating src/xml/escp2/inputslots/Makefile
config.status: creating src/xml/escp2/inks/Makefile
config.status: creating src/xml/escp2/weaves/Makefile
config.status: creating src/xml/escp2/qualitypresets/Makefile
config.status: creating src/xml/escp2/resolutions/Makefile
config.status: creating src/gutenprintui2/Makefile
config.status: creating src/gutenprintui2/gutenprintui2.pc
config.status: creating test/Makefile
config.status: creating test/compress-5level.sh
config.status: creating test/compress-6level.sh
config.status: creating test/uncompress-5level.sh
config.status: creating test/uncompress-6level.sh
config.status: creating test/parse-bjc
config.status: creating test/parse-escp2
config.status: creating test/run-testdither.test
config.status: creating test/run-weavetest.test
config.status: creating test/test-curve.test
config.status: creating scripts/Makefile
config.status: creating scripts/mkgitlog
config.status: creating scripts/gversion
config.status: creating scripts/test-gversion
config.status: creating scripts/wzpaq
config.status: creating config.h
config.status: config.h is unchanged
config.status: executing depfiles commands
config.status: executing libtool commands
rm: cannot remove 'libtoolT': No such file or directory
config.status: executing po-directories commands
config.status: creating po/POTFILES
config.status: creating po/Makefile
config.status: executing default commands


Gutenprint Configuration Summary:
---------- ------------- --------

If you have any problems, please report the information below to
gimp-print-devel@lists.sourceforge.net

================================================================
  Release: gutenprint 5.3.3 generated on 25 Aug 2019
  Generated at Tue Sep 21 11:21:10 EDT 2021 by ubuntu20

  Features:
    Build CUPS:                                 yes, installing in /usr
        Build CUPS 1.2 enhancements:            yes
        Build CUPS PPD files:                   yes
            Build translated CUPS PPD files:    yes
                Build global CUPS PPD files:    yes
            Build simplified CUPS PPD files:    no
            Install CUPS PPDs at top level:     no
        Generate PS level 3 CUPS PPD files:     yes
        Build genppd statically:                yes
        Build CUPS dyesub USB backend:          yes
    Build EPSON inkjet utility:                 yes
    Build enhanced Print plugin for GIMP:       no
    Build test programs:                        yes
    Build testpattern generator:                yes

  Installation summary:
    Installation prefix:                        /usr/local
    Exec prefix:                                /usr/local (${prefix})
    Data directory:                             /usr/local/share/gutenprint
    Library directory:                          /usr/local/lib/gutenprint (/usr/local/lib/gutenprint)
    Executable directory:                       /usr/local/bin (/usr/local/bin)
    XML data directory:                         /usr/local/share/gutenprint/5.3/xml
    Module directory:                           /usr/local/lib/gutenprint/5.3/modules (/usr/local/lib/gutenprint/5.3/modules)
    Install sample images:                      yes

  General configuration:
    Configure arguments:                        --enable-cups-ppds
    Compiler:                                   gcc
    Compiler Version:                           gcc version 9.3.0 (Ubuntu 9.3.0-17ubuntu1~20.04) 
    Compiler options:                           -Disfinite=finite  -O3  -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wnested-externs -Wwrite-strings -Werror-implicit-function-declaration -Winline -Wformat=2 -finline-limit=131072 -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wmissing-prototypes
    Build static libraries:                     yes
    Build shared libraries:                     yes
    Maintainer mode:                            no
    Use i18n:                                   yes
    Generate profiling information:             no
    Generate debugging symbols:                 no
    Use modules:                                static
    Use readline libraries:                     yes
    uname -a output:                            Linux ubuntu20-VirtualBox 5.11.0-34-generic #36~20.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Fri Aug 27 08:06:32 UTC 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
================================================================

VERY IMPORTANT:
If you expect to build the CUPS driver or the enhanced Print plugin for
GIMP, but the output above indicates that that component will not be built,
it almost certainly indicates that development packages required to build
that component are not installed on your system.  Please read the README
file and install the necessary development packages before reporting any
error to the development team.  Depending upon your operating system version,
you may have to install packages from the installation medium or over
the network.

Finished configuring.  Please review CAREFULLY the configuration summary above.
This summary is also stored in config.summary
Type 'make clean' followed by 'make' to build the package
then 'make install' to install it.

"Make" is still running I will post the result once its done. (it always runs successfully and as well as "sudo make install" after that)

[Khurram]

The text is quite long so I have attached the result from "make" from within the root Gutenprint source tree.

[Khurram]

Something else that might be helpful is that when I run "make package/gutenprint-5.3.3/{clean,prepare, compile, install} V=s" in the OpenWRT build environment I get the following results saying "No rule to make target..." and stops at "prepare"

ubuntu20@ubuntu20-VirtualBox:~/source$ make package/gutenprint-5.3.3/{clean,prepare, compile, install} V=s
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/ubuntu20/source'
make[1]: *** No rule to make target 'package/gutenprint-5.3.3/{clean,prepare,'.  Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/ubuntu20/source'
make: *** [/home/ubuntu20/source/include/toplevel.mk:230: package/gutenprint-5.3.3/{clean,prepare,] Error 2

[Robert Krawitz]

Again, I suggest you contact the OpenWRT people, since Gutenprint proper builds cleanly (albeit there are some warnings that we'll want to clean up). We aren't in a position to help with OpenWRT issues.

[Robert Krawitz]

The Gutenprint portion did build correctly. You'd probably do best contacting the OpenWRT team for assistance.

[Khurram]

Thank you will look into that.

I was wondering if there is a package available for gutenprint which can be be installed using the package manager on Ubuntu. For example right now I need to install the compressed file > extract it, then "make" and "make install' to install the package.

Is there a gutenprint package which can be installed with the default package manager on Ubuntu?

Thanks

[Robert Krawitz]

No, I'm sorry, we don't provide pre-built packages for any system other than Macintosh.

[Solomon Peachy]

On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 08:42:16PM -0000, Khurram wrote:

Is there a gutenprint package which can be installed with the default package manager on Ubuntu?

Ubuntu already provides a prebuilt gutenprint package, but it tends to
be a bit out of date.