Bug 32753 – Audacity WORKS with wxGTK compiled against GTK2

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Axel Gneiting 2003-11-04 16:20:52 UTC]

There is a check in audacity-1.1.3.ebuild:

        if [ `use gtk2` ]; then
                eerror ""
                eerror "Audacity will not build with wxGTK compiled"
                eerror "against gtk2.  Make sure you have set"
                eerror "-gtk2 in use for this program to compile"
                eerror ""
                die "Make sure -gtk2 is in USE"
        fi

After removing it, it compiled without problems and it's working.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. compiled wxGTK with USE="gtk2"
2. remove check from ebuild
3. emerge audacity-1.1.3.ebuild


Actual Results:  
Audacity works.

Expected Results:  
Audacity refuses to compile.

[Comment 1 Bartosch Pixa (RETIRED) 2003-11-04 20:38:38 UTC]

that depends if wxGTK is compiled with or without unicode support, with unicode
emabled audacity WILL break

[Comment 2 Axel Gneiting 2003-11-05 05:05:21 UTC]

Hm, why don't you check for unicode and gtk2 then?

[Comment 3 Bartosch Pixa (RETIRED) 2003-11-05 11:28:53 UTC]

because due to historical reasons there a a lot of ppl out there who dont
have unicode inUSE but still have wxGTK compiled with unicode enabled

[Comment 4 Mart Raudsepp 2003-11-09 07:27:52 UTC]

Due we have any universal means of checking with what USE flags a installed
package is compiled? As in usually check the contents of /var/db/pkg/<package>/<app>/USE

In that case we could just replace
if [ `use gtk2` ];
with something similar to
if [ `depend-use wxGTK gtk2` ];

I wonder what happens if I wanted to install audacity when I have compiled
wxGTK with USE="gtk2 unicode". I bet I can't without manual interference
due to the odd if [ `use gtk2` ] workaround.

[Comment 5 Stewart (RETIRED) 2003-11-27 11:27:07 UTC]

So is this problem with gtk2, unicode, or unicode+gtk2? If it's centred
around unicode, could we check instead for unicode support? IME, users are
migrating from gtk->gtk2, so to me it makes little sense to make gtk2 inhibit
the use of a (perfectly good) ebuild.

[Comment 6 Alastair Tse (RETIRED) 2003-12-11 13:34:29 UTC]

unicode is a "sub option" of gtk2. so that means :

if you have wxGTK + gtk2 you can choose the unicode flavour, or non-unicode flavour. if you have wxGTK + gtk1, then unicode has no effect.

so it the audacity ebuild should check unicode rather than gtk2. basically check if 'wx-config --libs' has 'gtk2u'.

[Comment 7 Jeremy Huddleston (RETIRED) 2004-02-07 02:18:21 UTC]

*** Bug 40300 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 8 Jeremy Huddleston (RETIRED) 2004-02-07 02:28:20 UTC]

new 1.1.3 and 1.2.0_pre3 ebuilds are now in portage.  They correctly check for wxGTK compiling without UNICODE rather than relying on the use flag.

[Comment 9 Aniruddha Shankar 2004-09-12 20:06:02 UTC]

Check out bug # 62002 ... test, if you can.