#14 Can't compile without xa65
Attempting to compile libsidplayfp-1.6.2 results in the following error:
$ make all-am
make[1]: Entering directory /home/psy/src/libsidplayfp-1.6.2'
xa -R -G ./sidplayfp/psiddrv.a65 -o sidplayfp/psiddrv.o65
make[1]: xa: Command not found
make[1]: *** [sidplayfp/psiddrv.o65] Error 127
make[1]: Leaving directory/home/psy/src/libsidplayfp-1.6.2'
make: *** [all] Error 2
This seems to be because libsidplayfp depends on a software package named xa65, which can be downloaded from http://www.floodgap.com/retrotech/xa/ (though possibly some distributions may provide binary packages). As far as I can tell, this dependency isn't mentioned anywhere in the documentation for libsidplayfp, and isn't checked for in the autoconf rules.
Please update the autoconf rules to check for the presence of xa65, and since this is a fairly obscure package please also mention where to obtain it in the README file.
Well, this isn't actually a hard dependency as the preassembled file is included in the tarball. I think the real problem here is that this file gets deleted on 'make clean', which shouldn't happen.
A workaround is to touch psiddrv.o65 (creating an empty file) and then psiddrv.bin.
Fixed in svn r1861
Last edit: Leandro Nini 2015-01-23
Available in release 1.7.0
this bug is still present in svn version. copying files from release tarball (and touching them to make) 'fixes' it.
files are in src/sidtune
sidplayer1.bin and sidplayer2.bin
Well... that's the expected behavior. If you are building from svn you need to have the developer prerequisites installed.