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

[Benjamin D. <bd...@ub...>]

Am Mittwoch, den 30.03.2011, 05:14 -0500 schrieb Leland:
> 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.

Yes and no. Audacity's configure should check if pa_unix_oss.h and
pa_linux_alsa.h are available on the system. Should I come up with an
updated patch?

> 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.)

-- 
Benjamin Drung
Debian & Ubuntu Developer