Hello!

[Mon, 20 Feb 2006] Mario Lang wrote:
> Package: libjack0.100.0-0
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

> Could you please explain the rationale behind above patch?
> By default, jack uses ${libdir}/jack as directory for searching

If you use ${libdir}/jack, you can't install two different versions
(sonames thus different package names) of libjack at the same time. That
makes Library transitions extra-hard.

> lib version number in it.  However, there is no obvious way
> to figure out whats the correct dir to use for addon packages.

The name ist always ${libdir}/${libjack-package-name}. Easy enough?

> So, how would a in-process client module know where
> it has to go on a Debian system?  On systems running jackd from
> source, they simply go into /usr/lib/jack, which is relatively
> easy to figure out in configure scripts.

... and clashes for above reason.

> I suggest we either drop the above patch, and use
> the same ADDON_DIR as other jackd installations, or
> we offer some way for addon packages to query this
> directory name.

I assume you already have found a way to depend on a libjack package.
Then the location for the modules is as described above.

Hope that helps.

        Robert.



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