gimp-print: replace by gutenprint?

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Do we still need the gimp-print port? The gimp-print project was renamed to gutenprint in 2004. We have a separate port for gutenprint.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

I'm asking because it does not build on macOS Mojave, because on Mojave we don't have /usr/include so we must use an SDK, and the old autotools files in gimp-print don't handle the -syslibroot flag correctly. I spent a little time trying to fix this by having the port run autoreconf, but the autogen.sh and configure.in files have numerous bugs and incompatibilities with current autotools which make autoreconfing fail. No other ports depend on gimp-print.

[Schamschula (Marius Schamschula)]

IIRC gutenprint only provides the gimp plugin, whereas gimp-print provides the drivers and utilities.

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

Yes, that appears to be the case, but I'm not sure why it should be. The two can be built from the same tarball, so it seems like there should be a gutenprint port to install what gimp-print currently installs except not massively outdated, and a subport called something like gutenprint-gimp-plugin for what gutenprint currently installs.

[mf2k (Frank Schima)]

David, can you make these changes please?

[kencu (Ken)]

this works

depends_build-append port:libtool
build.args           LIBTOOL="${prefix}/bin/glibtool --tag=CC"

and gimp-print builds against an SDK:

$ port -v installed gimp-print
The following ports are currently installed:
  gimp-print @4.2.7_0 (active) platform='darwin 18' archs='x86_64' date='2018-12-01T12:15:57-0800'

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Oh great, that's much easier than what I was trying. I guess if we don't decide to replace the port soon, you should commit that.

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

It's still a version from 14 years ago, so it needs to be updated whether we decide to rename it or not.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

There's nothing to update. 14 years ago is the most recent version of gimp-print. Anything newer is called gutenprint, for which there is already a separate port.

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

Replying to ryandesign:

There's nothing to update. 14 years ago is the most recent version of gimp-print. Anything newer is called gutenprint, for which there is already a separate port.

Except we don't have a port for that, as mentioned in comment:2. Keeping around a 14-year-old version because it had a different name back then is absurd.

[mascguy (Christopher Nielsen)]

Do we still need to apply Ken's change in comment:5 to resolve this?

[cooljeanius (Eric Gallager)]

Replying to ryandesign:

I'm asking because it does not build on macOS Mojave, because on Mojave we don't have /usr/include so we must use an SDK, and the old autotools files in gimp-print don't handle the -syslibroot flag correctly. I spent a little time trying to fix this by having the port run autoreconf, but the autogen.sh and configure.in files have numerous bugs and incompatibilities with current autotools which make autoreconfing fail. No other ports depend on gimp-print.

Coming here because I just ran into the -syslibroot issue myself.

[mascguy (Christopher Nielsen)]

I'll add this to my backlog.