Re: [Gap-dev-discuss] Cynthiune on Linux/ppc

[Philippe Roussel]

Hi,

On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 01:26:13AM +0200, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Philippe Roussel wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >Le 10/05/2012 00:59, Riccardo Mottola a écrit :
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>after all latest fix and patches, I tried my luck on ppc linux again
> >>
> >>ALSA: playes noise ( we need to figure endianness I guess)
> >Should we add a -dataEndianness method to the Format protocol ?
> I still don't know if it is file-format dependent or not, it depends
> how the libraries handle it

Maybe inspection of other players is in order ?

> >I'm also thinking about adding a configure script to handle the
> >dependencies. It could be used to check host endianness at build time.
> Please don't... I did configure scripts and they are a pain :)
> Especially together with gnustep-make. The gworkspace is hardly
> maintainable since a certain make release,, but that's another
> thread.

I agree, configure scripts are a pain but for the end user it's a lot
cleaner that having compilation fail because of missing librairies.

If some tests can be done directly in the makefile, I'm all for it but
the current state is not optimal in my opinion.

Philippe
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