various EsounD-related questions

[Rémi Cardona <remi gentoo org>]

Hi all,

I have a few questions about esound as I'm one of Gnome maintainers for
Gentoo (esound being our responsibility).

1) What's the status on esound being deprectated in Gnome? Does anyone
have a global view of which pieces need to be ported to gstreamer (or
anything else)?

Right now, we've been trying to make sure esound stays an optional
dependency but we're not really sure if we're cutting features out in
the process. So far, no one has complained to us... ;)

I know that pretty much everyone in the Gentoo Gnome Herd wants esound
out and we could probably help out wherever needed, given a
comprehensive list of things to hack on.

2) While I understand that my first point is a long(er) term goal, we've
been having several issues with esound itself. We currently have to
apply 5 patches on top of esound 0.2.38 to be able to build it.

It'd be great if those patches were applied in svn and a new tarball
released.

http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/*checkout*/gentoo-x86/media-sound/esound/files/esound-0.2.32-amd64.patch
http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/*checkout*/gentoo-x86/media-sound/esound/files/esound-0.2.36-mode_t.patch
http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/*checkout*/gentoo-x86/media-sound/esound/files/esound-0.2.38-as-needed.patch

Those first 3 fix build issues and can be applied as is.

http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/*checkout*/gentoo-x86/media-sound/esound/files/esound-0.2.38-doc.patch

That one fixes an autoreconf issue because "htmldir" is already defined
by recent autoconf.

http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/*checkout*/gentoo-x86/media-sound/esound/files/esound-0.2.38-libtool-2.2.patch

And finally that one is needed because libtool-2.2 removed the implicit
checks on C++. Although esd does not use C++ directly, the arts macro
does try to build something in C++. I didn't look much further into it
but the macros could probably be simplified a bit. This patch only fixes
the aclocal error by explicitly asking for the C++ check (this is
backwards compatible with libtool 1.5 of course).

Thanks for any help with those 2 points.

Cheers

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Rémi Cardona
LRI, INRIA
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remi gentoo org