Re: [Audacity-devel] Mac and source re-uploaded

[Leland <le...@au...>]

On 3/29/11 10:17 AM, Benjamin Drung wrote:
> 2) Support compiling against system portaudio:
>
> The portaudio package in Debian unstable and Ubuntu 11.04 (natty)
> contains the patch from Audacity. The Debian/Ubuntu package will build
> against this system version. The system-portaudio-v2.patch makes
> audacity configurable to either use the local or system version of
> portaudio. configure will check if the patch from Audacity is applied by
> checking if the function Pa_GetStreamHostApiType is available.
>
I like this patch since it fixes a problem that has bothered me for 
ages, but I never had the time/inclination to look into it.  If you run 
config.status (without the patch) from the toplevel directory, it should 
recreate src/Makefile.  But, it didn't do it properly and left the 
@PA_LIB@ unsubstituted.  With your patch, it recreates src/Makefile
correctly.

However, on Ubuntu 10.10, if it detects the system library, then 
portmixer configuration will fail because the portaudio system includes
do not include pa_unix_oss.h, pa_linux_alsa.h, etc.  This isn't a bug in
your patch, it is a bug in the portmixer configure.ac.

I've worked out the necessary changes for it, but I just want to test 
them a bit more on Linux and OSX.  (Yes, we do use the "configure" 
system on OSX...we just don't use the "build" system.)

Leland