> Yair K. wrote: > > B. Technical: Is this is a good idea? > > Well, the reason I asked him is that I think it would be much > > easier to get > > OSSv4 support included in binary distros if a soundcard.h file was > > included, > > and because gstreamer already includes a soundcard.h file. He > > suggested an > > alternative - have the build system search for an OSSv4 soundcard.h > > in the > > build system. IMHO, this would probably lead to asking distros to > > include a > > soundcard.h (leading to same questions * 1000 distros). > > Any distro that ships with OSSv4 would also ship the v4 soundcard.h. > Similarly, anybody who creates an 'unofficial' binary package with > OSSv4 > support for an OSSv4-less distro would compile it with OSSv4 > installed. > So I don't quite understand under what circumstances you would want > to > have the soundcard.h file shipped separately.
In Haiku the OSS4 port is in a separate binary package, but the media node addon code that makes media_server use it is in the source tree, and needs soundcard.h to know about the ioctls. François. _______________________________________________ oss-devel mailing list oss-devel@mailman.opensound.com http://mailman.opensound.com/mailman/listinfo/oss-devel
