[linux-audio-dev] Building qarecord and alsamodularsynth

[Alfons Adriaensen]

On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 11:46:59AM +0100, Matthias Nagorni wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Dave Robillard wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 23:53, Mark Johnathan Greenaway wrote:
> > > On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 11:36:42PM -0500, Dave Robillard wrote:
> > > > > I'm quite a fan of alsamodularsynth and have been recommending it to
> > > > > friends. The only problem I have with it is that rather than use
> > > > > automake/autoconf for building it has Makefiles that only work without
> > > > > editing under SuSE. Of course, editing the Makefiles to get it to build
> > > > > on other distributions and installing the required development packages
> > > > > is trivial.
> 
> You only have to edit the library path constants at the beginning of 
> the Makefile. If you have adapted that to the requirements of your system 
> once, you can just copy and paste it in any new Makefile of any new ams 
> release. It's indeed trivial. I don't like the idea of automake/autoconf. 
> I've got the impression that these pose more problems than they are 
> actually solving. So unless somebody convinces me, I won't include this 
> mechanism into the official ams tarball. 

I agree. Automake/autoconf are fine if you want real cross-platform portability,
but introducing this will not be done in 10 minutes as it will require changes to
most if not all source files as well, in order to use all the #defines created
by the system. And the changes required for compilation on other Linux distros
should be trivial indeed (iff all the required packages are already installed).

-- 
Fons