Jan Stary <h...@stare.cz> writes:

> On Aug 11 15:14:29, m...@mansr.com wrote:
>> Jan Stary <h...@stare.cz> writes:
>> 
>> >> > -AC_OPTIONAL_FORMAT(oss, OSS, [AC_CHECK_HEADERS(sys/soundcard.h,,
>> >> > -      [AC_CHECK_HEADERS(machine/soundcard.h,
>> >> > -         [AC_CHECK_LIB(ossaudio, _oss_ioctl, OSS_LIBS="$OSS_LIBS 
>> >> > -lossaudio")],
>> >> > -         using_oss=no)])])
>> >> > +AC_OPTIONAL_FORMAT(oss, OSS, [AC_CHECK_HEADERS(sys/soundcard.h,, 
>> >> > uing_oss=no)])
>> >> 
>> >> Apparently, the presence of <sys/soundcard.h> is not
>> >> a correct test of ossaudio being available in the system.
>> >
>> > Maybe I am confused by the Subject:
>> > "remove check for machine/soundcard.h and libossaudio"
>> 
>> The checks for those things have been removed.  It now only checks for
>> sys/soundcard.h since that better reflects what we actually want.
>
> Does that mean "if sys/soundcard.h was found,
> we are on a system where we want to use OSS"?

For want of a more specific test, yes.  Maybe we should check for one of
the SNDCTL_ macros as well.

>> > It seems this diff does not remove, but change the way
>> > ossaudio is detected; namely, if sys/soundcard.h is present,
>> > we have oss (which is wrong, at least on OpenBSD);
>> 
>> Did you fix that typo (a git pull will do it)?  If not, it would
>> definitely "detect" it as present on any system.
>
> With that typo fixed, ./configure on OpenBSD thinks that
>
>       OPTIONAL DEVICE DRIVERS
>       ao (Xiph)..................no
>       alsa (Linux)...............no
>       coreaudio (Mac OS X).......no
>       sndio (OpenBSD)............yes
>       oss........................no
>       pulseaudio.................no
>       sunaudio...................yes
>       waveaudio (MS-Windows).....no
>
> and the compilatiopn fails as in my previous email.
> But ./configure --without-sunaudio results in
>
>       OPTIONAL DEVICE DRIVERS
>       ao (Xiph)..................no
>       alsa (Linux)...............no
>       coreaudio (Mac OS X).......no
>       sndio (OpenBSD)............yes
>       oss........................no
>       pulseaudio.................no
>       sunaudio...................no
>       waveaudio (MS-Windows).....no
>
> and it builds fine.
>
>> > also, even with oss detected, we no longer set -libossaudio,
>> > which also seems wrong (anywhere we want to use it).
>> 
>> -lossaudio is _only_ for the emulation on *BSD.  No library is required
>> on systems with real OSS drivers.  We shouldn't be using the emulation,
>> so there is no need to link with the library either.
>
> Right; sorry for the confusion.
>
>       Jan
>

-- 
Måns Rullgård


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