[Xprint] Re: autotooling Xprint

[Julien Lafon]

On 7/31/05, Drew Parsons <dparsons at debian.org> wrote:
> I've had a go at making the changes to xserver/xorg required to build
> Xprt, creating new Makefile.am scripts in the Xprint subdirectory.  Xprt
> doesn't use various Xserver features like xkb, xi, xinput, so I added a
> few more disable flags into xorg/configure.ac. A neater solution might
> be to have these switched off automatically when --enable-xprint is
> switched on.
>
> I've got it to the point where the Xprt binary is built.  I must have
> missed some -Ddefines, since the binary doesn't operate correctly,
> saying "Fatal server error: no screens found", instead of waiting
> quietly for print connections.  Possibly that means I didn't give it the
> path to the Xprint config file
> (e.g. /usr/share/Xprint/xserver/C/print/Xprinters). The -XpFile command
> line option for providing it seems to have been taken away.
>
> Do you want to take what I've got?  You could add what I missed, giving
> the right build flags.  If it is just the config file I missed, that
> shouldn't be too hard for me to track down myself.

Drew: Did you solved the problem yet? I think this may be our fault as
we introduced a new preprocessor symbol a while ago for the unified
print server...

Julien
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Julien Lafon
Senior Staff Engineer, Hitachi