Re: [Audacity-devel] Help offer

[Richard A. <ri...@au...>]

On Sat, 2010-02-27 at 18:01 +0200, Rogutės Sparnuotos wrote:
> I did a quick test. Compilation went ok [*] on Linux x86_64 (compiled in
> a clean chroot/environment). Basic functionality seems to work, but didn't
> test thoroughly.
> 
> [*] lib-src/taglib wants automake-1.10, whereas I have automake-1.11, so
>     I had to run ./configure --without-taglib (but this is not
>     a regression, in fact this is how audacity is packaged in ArchLinux).

It's more like carelessness - Audacity doesn't have any code using
taglib, so it shouldn't have been either shipped or configured in the
first place. There is an intention to use taglib for metadata
import/export, but the code isn't there (I've just checked there are no
includes of the header files and no references to the USE_TAGLIB
pre-processor define in the audacity source).

This isn't going to make it in to this release, but I have made locally
the relevant change not to ship or test for taglib until and unless
someone writes the code to use it (this would be trivial to revert when
needed). Audacity's configure script needs to be regenerated with
autoconf after this patch is applied.

Richard