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As many of you might have noticed, the old openal CVS snapshots have |
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been replaced with upstream's official openal-0.0.8 release. The only |
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problem is that the alut stuff that was in openal (under Linux only) has |
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been split out into a new package. Because of this, some packages |
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require some work before they can be moved to using the new split |
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openal/freealut packages. I have unmasked openal-0.0.8 and freealut, |
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but the current "best version" in stable is still 20050504-r1, which has |
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the integrated alut. |
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Why am I telling you all of this? |
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Simple. I am trying to get every package in the tree to actually work |
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with the newer (0.0.8) openal, so I can remove the old CVS snapshots. |
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If you're willing to help (this means patches), then feel free to mask |
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>=media-libs/openal-200* locally and start merging packages that depend |
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on openal. A common problem you will see is this: |
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AL/alut.h: No such file or directory |
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This, of course, means that the package expects to use alut, so the |
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simplest solution is to try to add media-libs/freealut to DEPEND and |
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merge again. In some cases, this will work. Otherwise, a patch will |
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still be needed to get the package to work with the split |
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openal/freealut ebuilds. Please file bugs, with the patches, and make |
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sure that they block bug #132826, which is my tracker bug for these |
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issues. Please refrain from filing bugs on things that are broken |
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without a patch, as I have a list of the packages that depend on openal |
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already and am going through them one by one, so a bug report in this |
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case isn't beneficial without patches to resolve the problem. |
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Thanks, |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering - Strategic Lead |
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x86 Architecture Team |
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Games - Developer |
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Gentoo Linux |
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