From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Valtteri Vuorikoski <vuori@notcom.org>
Cc: luangruo@yahoo.com, van.ly@sdf.org, eggert@cs.ucla.edu,
64698@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#64698: 29.0.92; on netbsd 9.3, gmake and "gmake bootstrap" fail to proceed
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2023 19:12:43 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83a5vq36kk.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ptcamxxo3uh6ptrckp7id253doz2zzmioxvlr2gwf4av53mpc4@ytg2uwastwju> (message from Valtteri Vuorikoski on Thu, 20 Jul 2023 13:13:12 +0300)
> Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2023 13:13:12 +0300
> From: Valtteri Vuorikoski <vuori@notcom.org>
> Cc: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>, van.ly@sdf.org, luangruo@yahoo.com,
> 64698@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> On Thu, Jul 20, 2023 at 07:47:40AM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Valtteri, could you perhaps look into this? Also, I'd be interested
> > to know why you didn't bump into this problem in your builds.
>
> I've been building with --without-sound, and didn't have the ALSA
> library package installed either.
>
> I don't have a machine where I could actually test whether sound comes
> out, but the alsa-lib package in NetBSD pkgsrc includes an internal
> type_compat.h header that does this:
>
> #ifndef ESTRPIPE
> #define ESTRPIPE EPIPE
> #endif
>
> Building emacs with sound enabled but alsa-lib _not_ installed seems
> to work (= compiles and starts) by using the system OSS library. Since
> Emacs's audio needs are modest, it may be better to use "bsd-ossaudio"
> on NetBSD if --with-sound=yes. AFAICT "ALSA" on NetBSD is just a proxy
> for the native audio system anyway.
>
> The other option is to try and use ALSA if --with-sound=yes, but
> #ifdef out the ESTRPIPE branch if ESTRPIPE is not defined.
>
> Personally I'd go with the default-to-ossaudio option, since pulling in
> alsa libraries introduces a pkgsrc dependency into the binary and doesn't
> seem like it provides a lot of benefit. I'm not quite sure what's the
> best way to convince configure.ac to act like this, but I can test
> patches at least on a compiles/doesn't-compile level.
Thanks. I went with the #ifdef approach on the release branch, since
it's simpler and therefore safer.
Patches are welcome for preferring bsd-ossaudio on NetBSD.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-07-20 16:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-07-18 9:31 bug#64698: 29.0.92; on netbsd 9.3, gmake and "gmake bootstrap" fail to proceed Van Ly via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-07-18 10:22 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-07-18 11:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-19 3:10 ` Van Ly via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-07-19 12:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-19 21:01 ` Paul Eggert
2023-07-20 4:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-20 10:13 ` Valtteri Vuorikoski
2023-07-20 16:12 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2023-07-21 10:13 ` Valtteri Vuorikoski
2023-07-21 11:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-21 12:12 ` Valtteri Vuorikoski
2023-07-21 12:45 ` Van Ly via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-07-22 17:08 ` Valtteri Vuorikoski
2023-07-26 14:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
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