Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 09:13:40 +0100 From: Lars Koeller <Lars_Koeller@odie.physik2.uni-rostock.de> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Cc: asami@vader.cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) Subject: Re: Indroduce HAVE_NAS into ports makefile?? Message-ID: <199703250813.JAA04459@odie.physik2.uni-rostock.de> In-Reply-To: Lars_Koeller's message of Fri, 21 Mar 1997 13:22:15 %2B0100. <199703211223.NAA28345@odie.physik2.uni-rostock.de>
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Hi!
In reply to Lars Koeller who wrote:
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> Hi!
>
> In reply to Satoshi Asami who wrote:
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> > * What about the introduction of a HAVE_NAS Variable into the port
> > * makefiles? If it is set true, all the audio related stuff will be
> > * compiled with the NAS support. This would be a really helpful
> > * feature!
> >
> > How exactly does this "compile with the NAS support" work?
>
> That's the problem, it's port dependend i think. However, most of the progs,
> which have audio suppor have a switch to compile it with NAS support instead
> of /dev/audio. The ports I've tested are xboing, xgalaga, xfaces, mpeg_play
> (don't remember more in the moment). All of these only need the NAS package
> installed and a flag set in the I/Makefile. Perhaps it would be more simple
to
> have an directory called NAS with a special configure script for each NAS-ab
le
> port, and links to the 'normal' port files without NAS. The corresponding
> packages could be called xboing-2.3-nas.tgz for egsample.
>
> So the only work which have to be done is to lock at the ports and write the
> small configure/patch file which enables NAS for the prog.
What's the state of the HAVE_NAS flag in the ports mechanism? We should also
take into account, that the 4front company has announced their OSS system with
a wide soundcard support for FreeBSD. On their list NetAudio (NAS) appears on
the list of software which can use the OSS system!
Regards
Lars
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