Rocky Bernstein <[email protected]> writes: >> Thanks to all for paying attention to portability. The release builds >> on NetBSD-8 under pkgsrc just fine, and I have just committed an update >> to pkgsrc. > > Again this, is due to the careful work of both Edd and Thomas.
I saw that in your note, and I really did notice that from the messages that I sort of skimmed and couldn't dig into. Thanks Edd and Thomas! >> I noticed that cdda-player is not build on NetBSD or OpenBSD, and it >> seems clearly intentional (but I didn't see it in NEWS, so I'm only 99% >> confident). It was built in 2.0.0; perhaps it never did anything >> useful. This was somewhat non-obvious, so a AC_MESSAGE of "Disabling >> cdda-player because it is not supported on NetBSD and OpenBSD" would be >> perhaps helpful. > > Looking at configure.ac it looks to me like it should be built by defaulit, > but wil not if the libncurses or libcurses is not found. See > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/libcdio.git/tree/configure.ac#n654 ncurses is there and that wasn't it; I added "set -x" to trace things. > And there should be a message when cdda-player is not built. It should > happen near the code cited above here and should also appear at the end of > configuration. See around line 756 of configure.ac > <http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/libcdio.git/tree/configure.ac#n756> I did get the summary that it wasn't built. The reason (sorry for not being clear about it) was: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/libcdio.git/tree/configure.ac#n511 which was silent (without "set -x"). I would not have noticed if packaging fresh, but it was built under 2.0.0. It may well have been nonfunctional though. > What cdda-player does is probably not useful to most people nowadays. Some > CD-ROM players, especially the early ones had a headphone jack in the > device that you could plug into from the outside. Other models had I think > a some pins on the back separate from the power and data cables that you > could attach a speaker to. With this, you could issue a command to start > the CD-ROM to start playing as a standalone device and if you were plugged > into the headphone jack in the front or had these speaker wires attached on > the back you would hear an Audio CD played. No WAV data would be sent to > the computer. That indeed does not sound too useful :-)
