Yes, the current use case in not on Linux, but it could be at some point. So OK then to make it as a separated package, and thanks for doing that !
Stéphane > Le 28 juil. 2023 à 04:52, David Braun <br...@ccrma.stanford.edu> a écrit : > > I would have no issue with there being a faust-dev package that has > libfaustwithllvm.a, and the main faust package could exclude it. Currently > none of my projects rely on libfaustwithllvm.a being in the Debian package, > but we'd have to let the other users know. > > On Thu, Jul 27, 2023 at 4:06 PM IOhannes m zmölnig <zmoel...@iem.at> wrote: > hey stephane, > > thanks for your fast answer. > > On 7/27/23 23:11, Stéphane Letz wrote: > > Hi IOhannes, > > > > libfaustwithllvm.a library is a way to ease use of libfaust, without having > > the use to install/compile LLVM on its own. > > as said before: this is not an issue on Debian. > i can make sure that 'apt install faust' will end up with a working LLVM > toolchain. > i *already* make sure that 'apt install faust' has a working compiler. > > > We correctly use in faustgen~ (where we really need to link LLVM > > statically), > > but as I said: does your faustgen~ work on Linux? > > > but also FaustLive on Windows AFAICS > > but then: what about Linux? > > > > > Embedding LLVM in a library is not so unusual as Cmajor project also > > demonstrates: https://github.com/SoundStacks/cmajor, with a 143 MO binary > > on macOS. > > but again: not on Linux. > > i'm really talking about the 'faust' package for the Debian GNU/Linux > distributions. > so far, all the use-cases for this library appear to be non-linux. > grepping for "withllvm" on the files installed by the current package > yields 0 (zero) results (unlike grepping in the sources, of course). > > which functionality will break if i drop this library from the package? > > if there is *some* functionality (and please tell me), then I might > consider shipping the library in a supplementary package (that people > can choose to install). > > > > So I would suggest to but another harddisk !? > > nah, seriously. > my little /user/-story was anecdotical (and hence in parens). > > i'm much more concerned about people with modest hardware who are not > having a university job in a well-paying 1st world country like austria, > and who just want to install faust on their RPi0 with 'apt install faust' > > > mfdsy > IOhannes _______________________________________________ Faudiostream-devel mailing list Faudiostream-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/faudiostream-devel
