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cc: asami@vader.cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
Subject: Re: Indroduce HAVE_NAS into ports makefile?? 
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Hi!

In reply to Lars Koeller who wrote:
 
 > ----------
 > 
 > Hi!
 > 
 > In reply to Satoshi Asami who wrote:
 >  
 >  >  * 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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