various EsounD-related questions

[Rémi Cardona <remi cardona lri fr>]

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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