[yocto] Building gutenprint recipe

[Alexander Kanavin]

I do not recommend that you copy the binary over; it's better to clearly
separate native and target. Just patch the makefile.

Alex

2018-07-07 13:30 GMT+02:00 Timm <timm at timmedia.de>:

> Am 07.07.2018 um 12:17 schrieb 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),
>
> Done that: gutenprint depends on gutenprint-native.
>
> 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.
>
> As I understand I have two options:
> 1. Patching the makefile that the makefile calls the upstream version of
> "extract-strings" from gutenprint-native.
> 2. Would be the openwrt-way: removing the directories with the
> extract-strings sources. So this part will not be compiled. Then copying
> the the binary build by gutenprint-native. I extracted the part of the
> openwrt-build-file:
>
> define Build/Compile
> # Replace the cross-compiled "extract-string" by a shell-script that
> # runs the host's own compiled version (gutenprint needs to run this)
> (cd $(PKG_BUILD_DIR) && $(MAKE) -C src/xml extract-strings && \
> $(RM) src/xml/extract-strings && \
> echo '#!/bin/sh' > src/xml/extract-strings && \
> echo 'exec $(HOST_BUILD_DIR)/src/xml/extract-strings "$$$$@" ' \
> >> src/xml/extract-strings && chmod +x src/xml/extract-strings && cp
> src/xml/extract-strings /tmp/)
> $(call Build/Compile/Default)
> endef
>
>
> Source: https://github.com/FranciscoBorges/openwrt-
> printing-packages/blob/master/net/gutenprint/Makefile
>
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>
> There is one thing, I don't quite understand. How can I access the files
> which were created by the gutenprint-native recipe?
>
>
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