Please describe the problem:
The configure scripts checks for the cups environment and finds cups-config (which I have on my Linux box--really only because samba requires it.)

Then it checks to see whether the cups/cups.h is present. It isn't since I do not develop with it.

But, really, what I'm doing here is cross-compile for Win32 using the mingw32 environment under Ubuntu. That works, but only after I set some weird CUPS_CONFIG variable to "no" (i.e. no cups.)

Here you should either test whether you are cross compiling and if so check the cross compiled folders properly or have a command line option saying --without-cups.


Steps to reproduce:
1. Have fun recompiling all the GTK+ dependencies with the mingw compiler
2. cd gtk+-2.12.6
3. ./configure ...

(I assume you know of the many variables you have to set, etc.)

Actual results:
configure breaks saying that cups-config exists but not cups/cups.h

Expected results:
I would expect a --without-cups flag so we can simply tell the configure script to forget about it.

The best would be to check whether you are cross-compiling and if so, check with the cross-compiling PATH instead of the default path (but I think this is an automake feature...)

Does this happen every time?
Yes. Every time.

Other information:
To bypass this problem, I use the following:

  export ac_cv_path_CUPS_CONFIG="no"

This works great for now, but of course is not a good solution!