Re: [Osalp-dev] configure

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Tim Lorenz wrote:
> is there a special reason that osalp does not take use of configure?
> At last i didn't find any configure-stuff neither in release nor in
> cvs. O.K. - not strictly necessary, would just be a nice feature.
> 
> For example i don't want to install the patched version of audiofile
> in /usr/local and patching the makefile is OK for one person but in
> general i would be better to have a configuer-like mechanism, wouldn't
> it?
> 

The entire Makefile structure will be redone. I am probably going to
purchase a used Sun Sparc system so that I can do big endian testing
of the library and when I get the Sun system the Makefile system
will be redone. I have not decided if I am going to do the GNU
configure type of system or Imakefile type of system. Any ideas
anyone has would be appreciated. Also the "global" include files
will be moved to another directory instead of aflib and installed
to a install directory. An installer program is definitely on the
list with the Makefiles.

About the audiofile library. The author is busy and is not actively
maintaining the program. He also mentioned something about the Gnome
project with the audiofile library. I need to determine who if
anybody is going to support this library. If nobody steps forward
then I will have to. There are many forms of existing audio formats
in the library that are not supported. For instance for the au
format they don't support all the popular compression formats. I will
have to add these over time. This is the reason why I have a
copy with the library since bug fixes are not getting into the
audiofile library since they have not released a new version in a
while.

Bruce Forsberg