libSDL-1.2.12 has a pulseaudio configure option to allow libSDL apps to interact with libSDL (otherwise they can't) Will be requesting some thing for the emul-x86 package since that needs a bump and compiling with pulseaudio as well Reproducible: Always
I have add "pulseaudio" USE flag to existing ebuild, (see attach). Also, there is a bug in libSDL's config.in: if configure invoked with --enable-pulseaudio, it doesn't try to check for PA, but without --enable-pulseaudio it successfully detects PA... Patch attached.
Created attachment 135677 [details] media-libs/libsdl-1.2.12-r1
Created attachment 135678 [details, diff] PulseAudio detection in config.in
i've added this to SDL-1.2.13 looks like it's already been fixed upstream thanks for the report/patch !