[vorbis-dev] Library issues (BOUNCE vorbis-dev@xiph.org: Non-member submission from [rob@emusic.com]) (fwd)

[Monty]

BTW, I need a volunteer to upgrade xiph.org to MailMan or the like.  I'm 
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(Or, if you want to code all the features I want in majordomo, that's fine too 
;-)  I'm a little bit out of time, see....

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Sender: robert at emusic.com

I just brought the FreeAmp codebase up to speed with the latest Vorbis
source. In doing so, I've come up with the following questions:

1) There is libvorbis.a and vorbisfile.a. Why is vorbisfile.a not
 libvorbisfile.a? This presents problems when FreeAmp attemps to see if
 the vorbis libs are installed on the target machine. The source tarball
 that I just posted requires the lib to be installed in /usr/lib. Not a
 great solution. If vorbisfile.a were libvorbisfile.a I could just have
 configure do a AC_CHECK_LIB and then have the vorbis plugin be compiled
 with -lvorbis and -lvorbisfile
 
2) Are there any plans for creating shared libs?

What is the overall philosophy about the libraries? Should we include
the vorbis source inside of FreeAmp and avoid these problems? I'd prefer
to have shared libs...

Is there an rpm package script available? If not, I could cobble that
together quickly if need be...

- --ruaok         Freezerburn! All else is only icing. -- Soul Coughing

Robert Kaye -- robert at moon.eorbit.net  http://moon.eorbit.net/~robert

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