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Subject: Re: Configure patch for Linux sound=native
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From: Markus Gutschke <gutschk@uni-muenster.de>
Date: 24 Mar 1997 12:58:03 +0100
In-Reply-To: "William M. Perry"'s message of Sun, 23 Mar 1997 22:35:07 -0800
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"William M. Perry" <wmperry@aventail.com> writes:
> Steven L Baur writes:
> >I think you mean it _should_ be a long standing tradition.  I recall
> >getting bitten by a configure bug autodetecting the lack of
> >/usr/sbin/sendmail and selecting a broken replacement in the 19.14 beta
> >cycle.  There are *a lot* of good reasons to compile code on machines that
> >do not have sendmail running or available.
> 
>    I think you should have the configure stuff at least try to 'do the
> right thing' when a user tries to build from source.  Someone should be
> able to just type 'configure' and have XEmacs come up with all the bells
> and whistles available, sound under linux included.  If the person doing
> linux builds for the distribution doesn't get it autodetected, then that is
> there problem, and they should tweak the configure command, which they
> already have to do anyway.

You are right in demanding that sound support should automagically be
compiled into the binary, if it is available on the system. But it is
IMHO the wrong decision to test for the availability of a sound
driver, as this is a run-time feature. "configure" should rather test
for the availability of the required libraries and header files, as
that is a built-time feature. So, in a /normal/ Linux environment,
XEmacs should always be compiled with native sound support (possibly
also with NAS, if the support library can be found). This should
happen regardless of whether the build machine is equipped with a
sound card.


Markus

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