Re: Problem building gnustep-gui-0.10.0

[Enrico Sersale]

On 2005-08-17 00:26:41 +0300 Richard Stonehouse <richard@rstonehouse.co.uk> 
wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 02:37:10PM -0600, Adam Fedor wrote:
> > On Aug 15, 2005, at 2:20 PM, Richard Stonehouse wrote:
> > > portaudio is indeed v19 - it's included both in SuSE 9.1 and in 9.3
> > > (and presumably in 9.2 as well) - so maybe I won't be the last
> > > person to hit this problem!
> > >
> > > --disable-gsnd works fine and I'm now taking a look at portaudio 18.1.
>
> I've now built portaudio v18.1 and successfully built gnustep-gui
> against it.

I've modified gsnd to use portaudio v19. It seems to work very well. Can you 
test it, please?

> > > Do you know whether there are any GNUstep applications actually using
> > > gsnd yet, or is it there just for developers?
> >
> > I don't know of anyone using audio with GNUstep.

Also GNUMail can use audio; you must select a sound from 
Info->Preferences->Receiving.

> The contents viewer in GWorkspace shows the usual sound playing
> controls, if you select a sound file. Clicking on the 'play' button
> plays the sound - but then the machine starts to run very slowly, with
> the gnustep sound daemon soaking up all the CPU, until GWorkspace
> times out and aborts. Not sure whether this could be a bug or a sign
> that I've mis-built something - has anyone else had a similar
> experience?

I'm using the sound inspector since 2002, when I wrote NSSound and gsnd, and 
I've never experienced this overload...

> > One of my goals is to find someone to finish that off (even using v19 would 
> > be OK, if someone wanted to update gsnd).