#493: gdbm makes building difficult on Solaris
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Reporter: zanchey | Owner: lennart
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: 0.9.15
Component: module-device-restore | Severity: normal
Keywords: |
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The use of gdbm has made compiling PulseAudio a bit interesting on
Solaris.
gdbm is not shipped by Sun and is not available as an optional SUNW
package. It is available from third-party distributors (e.g.
blastwave.org) but this requires users to set up a secondary package
installation tool.
ndbm is a possible replacement.
Possible approaches:
1. Add a note in the documentation to say that PulseAudio requires gdbm,
and that Solaris users will need to download and install it separately.
Presumably autotools will pick up libraries from /opt/csw/lib etc.
2. Convert modules/module-device-restore.c to use ndbm if gdbm is not
available.
Presumably requires a bunch of #ifdef-ing, which is potentially ugly.
3. Convert modules/module-device-restore.c to use ndbm. If gdbm is
available, link with -lgdbm -lgdbm_compat to use GDBM's NDBM compatibility
layer.
Possible issues if there are features in GDBM unsupported by NDBM (e.g.
there is no way in NDBM to set the cache size, AFAICT). Files created by
NDBM and GDBM-in-NDBM-compat-mode are incompatible but the use of the host
name in creating the file probably negates this.
(I am happy to work on a patch using methods 2 or 3, but would appreciate
some guidance as to which would be more acceptable to the PulseAudio
project.)
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Ticket URL: <http://pulseaudio.org/ticket/493>
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