Re: Troubles installing GNUstep on NetBSD

[dgesbert]

Hi Peter,

Le 22 avr. 05, à 06:14, comrade@obverse.com.au a écrit :

> Hi Denis
>
> Sorry about the late reply; I've returned from a long vacation and have
> just started catching up with the mail backlog ;)

not really late, thanks for replying! I tried to follow your 
instructions but there is probably something wrong in my 
configuration...

> > thank you very much, I did used ./configure --disable-gsnd in
> > gnustep-gui and the installation did complete successfully  :)
> > For now I will try to use it "as is", but for the future I will be 
> > very
> > pleased if there is a way to enable sound.
>
> I've been looking at this on and off since gsnd was committed. I've now
> had a successful compile on NetBSD, but since I've got new hardware I
> can't actually enable the audio device on my box to test it :(
>
> This is what I did on NetBSD/i386 2.0.2:
>
> 1. Installed portaudio-18.1nb1 from pkgsrc

I already did

> 2. Modified the gsnd GNUmakefile to add a line
>    gnustep_sndd_OBJC_FILES = gsnd.m

This line was already in
>    and remove (by commenting out) the ifeq block containing
>    gnustep_sndd_C_FILES that adds the C files from the included copy of
>    portaudio. A patch is attached.

OK done!

> 3. Ran gmake in the gsnd directory, then gmake install

freeb# gmake
test -d ./shared_obj/portaudio/pa_common || \
  mkdir -p ./shared_obj/portaudio/pa_common ; \
  test -d ./shared_obj/portaudio/pa_unix_oss || \
  mkdir -p ./shared_obj/portaudio/pa_unix_oss ;
Making all for tool gnustep_sndd...
 Linking tool gnustep_sndd ...
./shared_obj/gsnd.o(.text+0x9de): In function `paCallback':
: undefined reference to `Pa_CloseStream'
./shared_obj/gsnd.o(.text+0x9ea): In function `paCallback':
: undefined reference to `Pa_Terminate'
./shared_obj/gsnd.o(.text+0xa1d): In function `paCallback':
: undefined reference to `Pa_GetErrorText'
./shared_obj/gsnd.o(.text+0xa3a): In function `paCallback':
: undefined reference to `Pa_GetErrorText'
./shared_obj/gsnd.o(.text+0x1a19): In function `_i_SoundServer__play':
: undefined reference to `Pa_Initialize'
./shared_obj/gsnd.o(.text+0x1a2a): In function `_i_SoundServer__play':
: undefined reference to `Pa_GetErrorText'
./shared_obj/gsnd.o(.text+0x1a6a): In function `_i_SoundServer__play':
: undefined reference to `Pa_OpenDefaultStream'
./shared_obj/gsnd.o(.text+0x1a7a): In function `_i_SoundServer__play':
: undefined reference to `Pa_GetErrorText'
./shared_obj/gsnd.o(.text+0x1a97): In function `_i_SoundServer__play':
: undefined reference to `Pa_StartStream'
./shared_obj/gsnd.o(.text+0x1aa7): In function `_i_SoundServer__play':
: undefined reference to `Pa_GetErrorText'
./shared_obj/gsnd.o(.text+0x1ac2): In function `_i_SoundServer__play':
: undefined reference to `Pa_Sleep'
gmake[1]: *** [shared_obj/gnustep_sndd] Error 1
gmake: *** [gnustep_sndd.all.tool.variables] Error 2


> 4. Run the tool :)
>
> Can you do this and tell me whether something like GNUmail that 
> generates
> sounds, works?

Regards

Denis

> I think portaudio may be a useful third-party prerequisite library that
> is searched for by configure, and that GUI only conditionally builds
> gsnd if portaudio is present. Thoughts?
>
> Regards
>
> Peter