543779 - Build configuration doesn't provide an option to use OSS instead of ALSA

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 503691

(Core :: Audio/Video, defect)

Description

[Nikos Chantziaras]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100131 Gentoo Firefox/3.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100131 Gentoo Firefox/3.6

On Linux systems that use Open Sound System sound drivers instead of ALSA, it is not possible to build xulrunner with OSS support without editing media/libsydneyaudio/src/Makefile.in, config/system-headers, js/src/config/system-headers and configure.in. To automate this for example, one would have to use sed:

  sed -i 's/sydney_audio_alsa/sydney_audio_oss/' media/libsydneyaudio/src/Makefile.in
  sed -i '/alsa\//d' config/system-headers
  sed -i '/alsa\//d' js/src/config/system-headers
  sed -i '/LIB(asound/d' configure.in

The build system should provide a mozconfig option to select OSS instead of the default (ALSA).

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Shmerl]

Does it mean that Firefox needs to be built separately for systems with OSS4 and systems with ALSA? This will duplicate release packages. Shouldn't both subsystems be usable by the same binary? Properly developed applications support a choice of sound subsystem without recompilation.