Package: libsidplay2
Version: 2.1.1-3.1
I have run into four separate issues of sidplay2, which are somewhat
related to each other. Here is my method, which lead me into the
troubles. I extract the source on an ubuntu dapper system like this:
% apt-get source libsidplay2
This downloads & patches the source. I now enter the directory:
% cd sidplay-libs-2.1.1
% fakeroot debian/rules binary-arch
This compiles a lot of packages and places them into the .. directory.
My first issue: why is there no package for the hardsid builder? I have
the catweasel mk4 card that is hardsid compatible. I run it with a
custom kernel module. I have to do this in order to have the library on
my system:
% sudo cp -a debian/tmp/usr/lib/libhardsid-builder.* /usr/local/lib/
I also need to copy debian/tmp/usr/include/sidplay/builders/hardsid.h
somewhere in /usr/local/include. After this, I must get the sources to
sidplay and compile them. This compiling goes without issue, and sidplay
has the --hardsid switch. Can't we have hardsid built by default? The
library is minuscule and would be very useful for the handful of people
that have hardware SIDs.
My second issue with the packages is that I can't compile them twice. A
whole bunch of directories become created in debian directory, one of
them being debian/libsidplay-dev, and the scripts can't handle that. The
directory remains even after a "debian/rules clean". I need to rm -rf
that directory manually or the build process with the fakeroot will fail.
Finally, after having a bunch of packages built and after installing
them, the libsidutils.la and libsidplay.la somehow ended up with paths
that referred to the build environment, in effect somewhere under my
home directory. I have not been able to reproduce this in a fresh
extract of the sources, but it has happened at least once before. It
could be that the scripts somehow make a mistake if I repeatedly
recompile in the same debian source tree. Theorizing upon the previous
issue, this is not something that the Debian maintainer normally does.
I also noticed that the package needs to be built with g++-3.4 or it
becomes seriously broken. I don't know if this is an issue with g++-4.0
(on amd64) or sidplay sources doing something not fully standards
compatible. Songs play too fast, and sometimes just plain wrong, hard to
say. The issues begin already in the 6502 emulation, because songs play
too fast even when not using resid for playback. It could be due to some
changes in the new aliasing optimizations, perhaps.
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Antti
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