RE: OpenAL SI platform/backend cleanup

Hi,

On Fri, 30 Jun 2006, Ed Phillips wrote:

> On Fri, 30 Jun 2006, Sven Panne wrote:
>
> > * Basically the same holds for Solaris, but this time with Ed as a
> > possible tester/bug reporter/fixer. What would be a good name for this
> > backend? "native" should only be an alias on all platforms.
> Maybe "sunaudio"?  I'm not sure what the issues are for choosing these 
> names...
Any further thoughts on this?

> What version of autoconf/automake should I try to use... I'm having 
> difficulty getting the code to build on Solaris 9 with gcc 2.95.3 and the 
> following versions of the autotools stuff:
> polycut:~/openal/svnexp> autoconf --version
> autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.57
> Written by David J. MacKenzie and Akim Demaille.
>
> Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
> warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
> polycut:~/openal/svnexp> automake --version
> automake (GNU automake) 1.7
> Written by Tom Tromey <tromey@xxxxxxxxxx>.
>
> Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
> warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
I built the latest automake and autoconf, and I get a lot of warnings from 
autogen.sh, but at least I can run configure and make now.... still trying 
to get make to complete successfully.  It appears my ESD lib (0.2.18) is 
way out of date, so I've disabled that backend for now.  It looks like SDL 
(1.2.5) and SMPEG (0.4.4) currently on my Solaris system might actually be 
sufficient and are picked up automatically.  OGG/Vorbis is not getting 
picked up so I need to get that configured.  ALSA, aRts, and OSS aren't 
available on my test machine, so their getting skipped - I don't even know 
if they'd compile/work on my test system anyway, so no biggie there.
Unfortunately, the native Solaris backend is not detected... so I'm still 
trying to sort that out since it's the key backend that should "just 
work".
So... a wee bit of progress has been made, at least... :-)

        Ed

Ed Phillips <ed@xxxxxxxx> University of Delaware (302) 831-6082
Systems Programmer IV, Network and Systems Services