[lsb-discuss] Problem building an LSB package which includes its own copy of the CUPS library

[Jeff Licquia]

Till Kamppeter wrote:
> Jeff Licquia wrote:
>> If the package really needs CUPS 1.2, then good luck making it 
>> LSB-compliant. :-)  But even here, I'd say the test would do better by 
>> checking for the version of CUPS some other way.  Use of cups-config 
>> comes to mind.
> 
> I have already told in my initial posting that I am building the package 
> with its own copy of the CUPS library (statically linked), as I know 
> that cupsDoFileRequest() is an interface which is not in the convenience 
> API. I do this already successfully with Gutenprint (downloadable via 
> the "gutenprint" and "gutenprint52" driver entries on OpenPrinting).

OK.  But the problem here isn't in the code itself, but in the configure 
test, right?  That test probably needs to be changed.