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