[yocto] Building gutenprint recipe

[Alexander Kanavin]

How to do this is specific to each project. Generally, you want the
target recipe to depend on the native recipe (so that the necessary
native tools show up in the target sysroot), and then you need to
study the build system of the upstream component project (makefiles
etc.) to see how it can be instructed to use the tool installed in the
system, instead of building and using it's own version. Then patch the
source code accordingly from the recipe.

Alex

2018-07-07 12:02 GMT+02:00 Timm <timm at timmedia.de>:
> There was a gutenprint recipe back in OE-Classic:
> https://layers.openembedded.org/layerindex/oe-classic/recipe/12076/
>
> But currently there is no gutenprint available for Yocto.
>
> I tried to build my own recipe. But I got stuck at the stage where the
> build process wants to call some generated binaries:
>
>     | ./extract-strings `cat xml-stamp | sed -e
> 's;^;../../../gutenprint-5.2.11/src/xml/;'` > xmli18n-tmp.h.tmp
>     | /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3: No such file or directory
>
> So, I introduced a "native" recipe, which just compiles the
> "extract-strings" for me:
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> SECTION = "libs"
> require gutenprint_${PV}.bb
> DEPENDS = "gettext-native"
> inherit native autotools
>
> EXTRA_OECONG = "\
>         --disable-libgutenprintui2 \
>             --disable-samples \
>         --without-gimp2 \
>         --without-doc \
>         --disable-nls \
>         --disable-nls-macos \
>         --without-foomatic \
>         --without-foomatic3 \
>         --disable-escputil \
>         --disable-test \
>         --disable-testpattern \
>         --without-cups \
>                "
>
> do_compile() {
>     oe_runmake -C src/xml/ extract-strings
> }
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> The next step is quite unclear for me? How can I tell the build system
> not to generate the extract-strings again and use the native instead?
>
> As reference I used the build scripts from openwrt and buildroot. But
> I'm not able to translate this build steps to Yocto.
>
> https://github.com/FranciscoBorges/openwrt-printing-packages/blob/master/net/gutenprint/Makefile
>
> https://github.com/buildroot/buildroot/blob/master/package/gutenprint/gutenprint.mk
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