Re: [Ekiga-devel-list] ANNOUNCE - Ekiga 3.0.1 available

[Eugen Dedu <Eugen Dedu pu-pm univ-fcomte fr>]

Hi,

In debian, libopal explicitly depends on libspeex1 and libspeexdsp1. 
This solves the problem.

Eugen

Peter Robinson wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 11:26 AM, Matthias Schneider
> <ma30002000 yahoo de> wrote:
> > Peter,
> > it looks strange to me that at opal compilation time you have speexdsp
> > on your system and at ekiga compile time you dont.
>
> The Fedora build system builds every package in a separate chroot for
> every package, every build requirement needs to be explicitly included
> for every separate package. So for building the ptlib/opal/ekiga
> package set there's 3 separate build roots and they are built in a
> chain. So I don't know enough about the intrinsics of linking but
> ekiga v3.0.0 run and worked fine without explicit linking of speex
> (and given that it definitely wasn't in the build env as it wasn't in
> the build spec file) and v 3.0.1 doesn't I asked a question as to why
> it was needed. I know Fedora is getting very tight on the way things
> are linked in through different dependencies and hence why I noticed
> the issue and asked the question as to what had changed.
>
> Peter
>
> Actually the behaviour
> > seems normal to me:
> >
> > - We build a OPAL shared library that requires speexdsp.
> > - When we link this library, it is checked that speexdsp symbols are working;
> >  however the speexdsp symbols will NOT be included in the OPAL shared lib
> > - OPAL adds speexdsp to its PKG-requires section to tell apps linking to it that
> >  it accesses symbols from speexdsp
> > - when ekiga links to opal, it also has to link to speexdsp in order to resolve all symbols
> >  ( you would get unresolved symbols errors if not)
> > - ekiga gets this information from pkg-config
> >
> > Matthias
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Ursprüngliche Mail ----
> > > Von: Peter Robinson <pbrobinson gmail com>
> > > An: Matthias Schneider <ma30002000 yahoo de>
> > > CC: Ekiga development mailing list <ekiga-devel-list gnome org>
> > > Gesendet: Dienstag, den 21. Oktober 2008, 11:00:21 Uhr
> > > Betreff: Re: [Ekiga-devel-list] ANNOUNCE - Ekiga 3.0.1 available
> > >
> > > > Hi Peter,
> > > > actually the dependency to speexdsp was not added, but the detection
> > > > of a system speexdsp was fixed. We have two places where we use speex:
> > > >
> > > > speex at the speex codec plugin
> > > > speexdsp for echo cancelling in opal
> > > >
> > > > For speex in the plugin nothing has changed. For the echo cancelling,
> > > > since the detection was not working in 3.0.0, OPAL always fell back to
> > > > the internal speexdsp code, which is actually quite old and caused problems
> > > > on some systems (e.g. windows). You can force the old behaviour (using
> > > > the internal speexdsp) by
> > > >
> > > > --enable-localspeexdsp
> > > >
> > > > in the OPAL configure line.
> > > I understand the detection of the speex was broken in opal. But it
> > > wasn't the compilation of opal that was causing the problems it was
> > > the actual compilation of ekiga. As ekiga uses opal my understanding
> > > is that it shouldn't need speex directly and hence any linking to the
> > > speex libraries should be done by opal and not ekiga, and in turn
> > > ekiga then links to opal.