First and foremost: wow. A post-doc at just three years older than me. *cries in high-school drop-out* Super awesome! I have cleaned up my package definition as per your review: https://github.com/peanutbutterandcrackers/guix-packages/blob/master/aegisub.scm I will look into the matter then. Might take me a while, but I'll try. It's sad that framagit is closing. I think they were doing a great job with peertube and all... On Sun, Sep 27, 2020 at 3:00 AM Julien Lepiller wrote: > Thanks! On the guix system, aegisub already works properly (at least it > did when I last used it), because the alsa config allows it to find > pulseaudio. > > There are three issues with your proposed change: > > First using derivation-outputs is a bad idea, and it probably only works > because alsa-plugin doesn't depend on your modified alsa-lib (you'd get an > infinite loop I think). Since alsa-plugin doesn't depend on this modified > alsa-lib, you don't need such a convoluted work around. When defining the > conhigure flags, you can simply use (assoc-ref %build-inputs "alsa-plugin") > when "alsa-plugin" is defined as an input to the package. > > Second, setting plugindir at build-time is just asking for the same kind > of issues you are trying to fix, only for finding another plugin that might > be needed. > > Third, the way you modify the arguments is… unconventional :) try using > substitute-keyword-arguments instead. There are plenty of examples in the > repo. > > I remember having dealt with this issue before, and pushed a patch some 3 > years ago: http://issues.guix.gnu.org/31239 > > Could you look at what happened in the meantime? I think it was reverted > in favor of the asound.conf file we have in the guix system now. You might > learn something if you find the reason why it was changed. > > Re my other projects, framagit is going to close next year, so I'll be > migrating to my own hosting, currently at git.lepiller.eu. > > Ok for the cultural difference. It's probably too soon to call me a > "senior" though, I'm still pretty young: only 3 years older than you :p > > Le 26 septembre 2020 16:46:50 GMT-04:00, Prafulla Giri < > pratheblackdiamond@gmail.com> a écrit : >> >> Oh, I come from a culture that does not call seniors by their first >> names. (: >> Yes! guix-android looks super awesome! I'm glad that you are working on >> that. You're awesome. >> (Also, I just realized that you've also got guix-home-manager and so many >> more cool repositories! I need to check those out, and soon!) >> >> I did manage to resolve this issue. Kinda'. Here: >> https://github.com/peanutbutterandcrackers/guix-packages/blob/master/aegisub.scm >> >> All I had to do was re-define 'alsa-lib' to point to the /gnu/store path >> of alsa-plugins. The /gnu/store path had to be figured out during runtime. >> >> Could you please check how this fares in a GuixSD system? If it goes >> well, perhaps I should send a patch in for aegisub. But then again, I >> wonder if I should make the changes in alsa-lib itself, but I am not very >> sure about that. >> >> On Sat, Sep 26, 2020 at 8:20 PM Julien Lepiller >> wrote: >> >>> Hehe, thanks for your interest in guix-android. It's not really done >>> yet, but I'm very motivated :). It always feels weird when someone on the >>> internet calls you Mr ^^. No need to be so stiff, you can call me "Julien" >>> (and I suppose it's the norm to call people by their first name in this >>> kind of internet community). >>> >>> Maybe try to run aegisub with strace -f, you might find out something. >>> You may have to take a look at alsa's sources to find out how it looks for >>> its plugins exactly (maybe try to grep for PLUGIN or PLUGINDIR)? >>> >>> Le 26 septembre 2020 08:07:34 GMT-04:00, Prafulla Giri < >>> pratheblackdiamond@gmail.com> a écrit : >>>> >>>> Okay, I think I'm stuck now. lol >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Sat, Sep 26, 2020 at 3:42 PM Prafulla Giri < >>>> pratheblackdiamond@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hello Mr. Lepiller, >>>>> >>>>> Thank you for the tip. For the moment, I want to poke around this >>>>> issue. Perhaps I get absolutely tired of it (or find a good hack - and an >>>>> ugly patch). I did manage to learn a bit more about union-builds in >>>>> general. So, that's a silver lining. >>>>> >>>>> Also, your work on guix-android seems so very cool! Please keep up the >>>>> great work! >>>>> >>>>> On Sat, Sep 26, 2020 at 3:28 PM Julien Lepiller >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Hi Prafulla, >>>>>> >>>>>> Le 26 septembre 2020 03:31:38 GMT-04:00, Prafulla Giri < >>>>>> pratheblackdiamond@gmail.com> a écrit : >>>>>> >Another information: >>>>>> > >>>>>> >I have other programs on my foreign system (installed via guix) that >>>>>> >produce sound well, without any issues. They include: >>>>>> >espeak and kdenlive. >>>>>> > >>>>>> >Also, I did try making the union-build use copies instead of symlinks >>>>>> >using >>>>>> >(union-build ... #:symlink copy-recursively) but that didn't work out >>>>>> >either. >>>>>> > >>>>>> >Now, I'm going to take a look at fixing the pkg-config rules, and >>>>>> will >>>>>> >be >>>>>> >updating this thread should that resolve this issue. >>>>>> > >>>>>> >On Sat, Sep 26, 2020 at 12:21 PM Prafulla Giri >>>>>> > >>>>>> >wrote: >>>>>> > >>>>>> >> I forgot to mention, but the union-build works. If one `guix >>>>>> build`s >>>>>> >the >>>>>> >> union package, and cd into the /gnu/store/...-union-build, one will >>>>>> >see >>>>>> >> that things are there as it should be (lib/normal-alsa-*.so and >>>>>> >> lib/alsa-lib/*pulse*.so). >>>>>> >> >>>>>> >> It's just that aegisub seems to be looking from the >>>>>> >> /gnu/store/normal-alsa-lib-dir instead of >>>>>> >/gnu/store/union-alsa-package. >>>>>> >> >>>>>> >>>>>> I think the issue with the union-build is that it is completely >>>>>> ignored: alsa doesn't look in it's current directory for plugins, but in >>>>>> the directory where it's been configured (at build time) to look for. >>>>>> >>>>>> On the Guix System, there is a service that creates a >>>>>> /etc/asound.conf, which references alsa-plugins:pulseaudio. Maybe you >>>>>> actually want to configure that? Maybe try to copy this to a new file >>>>>> .asoundrc: >>>>>> >>>>>> pcm_type.pule { >>>>>> lib >>>>>> "/home/foo/.guix-profile/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_pulse.so" >>>>>> } >>>>>> >>>>>> ctl_type.pulse { >>>>>> >>>>>> lib"/home/foo/.guix-profile/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_ctl_pulse.so" >>>>>> } >>>>>> >>>>>> pcm.!default { >>>>>> type pulse >>>>>> } >>>>>> >>>>>> ctl.!default { >>>>>> type pulse >>>>>> } >>>>>> >>>>>