Re: [Ltib] Gutenprint 5.2.8 with LTIB

[Mike Goins]

On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 6:50 AM, Mike Goins
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Andy Yew <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Has anyone successfully build/LTIB Gutenprint?
>
>
> Gutenprint is one of those that are not cross-compile friendly (after
> taking a brief look at it).   It requires running a just built
> "extract-strings" on the host, but it does not appear differentiate
> between "build" and "host".  There are a couple options to get around
> this.

Here is another method used to cross-compile the package:
http://pits.googlecode.com/svn-history/r5/trunk/ijsgutenprint/Makefile

It builds libijs and extract-strings outside the source tree.  A
wrapper script file called extract-strings in created in the expected
location that references the host binary (which satisfies the rule to
build it).

It is very possible to do this entirely within the spec file.

<snipped for brevity since replying to own message, apologies>