[Audacity-devel] Patches for building audacity 1.3.9 on Solaris

[Brian C. <Brian.Cameron@Sun.COM>]

Audacity team:

I just got audacity 1.3.9 building on Solaris, and I wanted to share
some patches that I hope can go upstream.  I provided some of these
patches in an earlier email about the 1.3.8 release but these patches
did not get upstream and my email no response.  These patches apply
against the latest 1.3.9 version, though.

1) audacity-01-m4.diff

     This patch just fixes the definition of some environment variables
     so it works with bourne shell syntax, which is used on Solaris.  It
     is a harmless change, but makes the build work for Solaris.

2) audacity-04-Tmacro.diff

     Solaris does not support the _T() wxWidgets macro, but instead needs
     to use the wxT() macro.  Note that wxWidgets defines both to the
     same thing, so it does not matter which one you use (unless you are
     building on Solaris).  So, this patch just modifies
     src/MixerBoard.cpp to use wxT() instead of _T().

3) audacity-06-gsocket.diff

    If you try to build audacity with a recent release of GLib (I am
    using 2.21.6) it will fail building code that links in the
    wxWidgets GSockets code complaining that GSocket is already defined
    as a typedef by Glib.  This patch is a workaround similar to the
    way that the following wxWidgets bug #10883 bug is fixed:

    http://trac.wxwidgets.org/ticket/10883

    Though a better fix might be to split up the code so that the
    code which needs the glib header files and the code that needs
    the wxWidgets header files are separated into different files,
    thus avoiding the issue.

4) audacity-07-soundtouch.diff

    I have the latest soundtouch 1.4 installed on my system, but
    the audacity configure script does not find it and wants to
    build its own local version of soundtouch.  The attached
    patch fixes audacity so the configure script recognizes
    the new soundtouch-1.4 pc file instead of the old soundtouch 1.0
    one.  Would be nice if audacity worked with the latest version
    of SoundTouch.  Refer here for the information about the latest
    1.4 version of SoundTouch:

    http://www.surina.net/soundtouch/

Brian