[vorbis-dev] build process patches

[OmegaDan]

Linux/unix really needs a ports system like BSD to deal with problems like
this ... The reason I mention this is I used to work on the gentoo distro
with a guy who's currently developing one ... (www.gentoo.org) ...

OD

On 30 Dec 2000, Mike Coleman wrote:
> Date: 30 Dec 2000 20:44:45 -0600
> To: vorbis-dev at xiph.org
> From: Mike Coleman <mcoleman2 at kc.rr.com>
> Reply-To: vorbis-dev at xiph.org
> Sender: owner-vorbis-dev at xiph.org
> Subject: Re: [vorbis-dev] build process patches
> 
> Jack Moffitt <jack at icecast.org> writes:
> > It doesn't work when you try to integrate things into standard
> packaging
> > systems.  How am I to know which set of libs you have?  Sure, OSS
> doesn't
> > require any libs, but ALSA does.  Monty uses alsa.  I use Esound.  Both
> > require libs, and neither of us has the other one.  We both like to use
> > packages (me, rpm, monty, debian) for installing things.
> 
> Ok, I guess it was a stupid question; I can't think of anything better
> either.
> (I'm a debian guy, too.)
> 
> This is actually kind of an obnoxious problem in general; reminds me of
> Windows (/me makes gagging sounds and motions).
> 
> > Compiling it statically just doesn't work.  Doing it dynamically turned
> > about to be easy and fixed the problem correctly IMO.  What grief have
> you
> > had? :)
> 
> The grief I ran into was using the 'debug' or 'profile' targets in
> ao/src/Makefile, which fail to include the
> '-DAO_PLUGIN_PATH=\"${exec_prefix}/lib/ao\"' flag, which causes the
> library to
> silently look for plugins in /usr/local/lib/ao by default, which then
> causes
> ogg123 to fail with a fairly inscrutable error message.
> 
> It seems to me that this needs to be fixed somehow.  My thought would be
> to
> (1) make sure that flag gets included for the reasonable targets
> (including
> 'debug', 'profile'),
> (2) remove the default, as it's not really useful, certainly not as
> useful as
> discovering this problem at compile time, and
> (3) maybe add a little text to the ogg123 error message to indicate, say,
> the
> exact filename not being found, instead of just saying "no such device".
> 
> --Mike
> 
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