I'm using oss4.1 instead of alsa. Now I wanted to try Firefox-3.5. In the depency xulrunner wanted to install: [ebuild N ] media-sound/alsa-headers-1.0.20 [ebuild N ] media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.20 So, logically I edited the ebuild, and removed the alsa depency from xulrunner-1.9.1.ebuild. And then I got the error message while configuring: checking for snd_pcm_open in -lasound... no configure: error: Ogg support on Linux requires the alsa library That's really new for me, that ogg would need any alsa library. I'm using ogg for ages with oss. Please check that and remove the alsa depency. Reproducible: Always
Complain upstream. Mozilla uses a copy of libsydney. On Linux, that means one file from it: sydney_audio_alsa.c. As the name suggests, alsa is required.
(In reply to comment #0) > I'm using oss4.1 instead of alsa. Now I wanted to try Firefox-3.5. In the > depency xulrunner wanted to install: > > [ebuild N ] media-sound/alsa-headers-1.0.20 > [ebuild N ] media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.20 > > So, logically I edited the ebuild, and removed the alsa depency from > xulrunner-1.9.1.ebuild. And then I got the error message while configuring: > > checking for snd_pcm_open in -lasound... no > configure: error: Ogg support on Linux requires the alsa library > > That's really new for me, that ogg would need any alsa library. I'm using ogg > for ages with oss. Please check that and remove the alsa depency. > > Reproducible: Always > If you want the dep removed, please file a bug upstream. Gentoo is not in the business of reprogramming the mozilla code just to remove deps that user do not wish for.
For the sake of completeness I gonna reassign this bug to the mozilla herd so that they can do the RESO UPSTREAM.
Please file a bug upstream and paste the URL here so we can CC ourselves and follow up. Thanks.
Created attachment 196761 [details, diff] Patch to make Firefox and Xulrunner compile without alsa
Created attachment 196765 [details, diff] Ebuild for Firefox-3.5 to use the Patch above
Created attachment 196766 [details, diff] Ebuild for Xulrunner to use the patch above
To get oss-support and get rid of that alsa dependency, just put the patch into the files folder (/usr/portage/...) of Xulrunner and Firefox and use the modified ebuilds. If you get the error message "Couldn't load XPCOM." when you try to start firefox, rebuild nss or do just a revdep-rebuild.
(In reply to comment #5) > Created an attachment (id=196761) [edit] > Patch to make Firefox and Xulrunner compile without alsa > That patch completely disables alsa support. Plus, you really want to open an upstream bug for this, or see if there already is one open so that others can get the benefit as well :)
(In reply to comment #9) > That patch completely disables alsa support. Plus, you really want to open an > upstream bug for this, or see if there already is one open so that others can > get the benefit as well :) Yes, this patch disables alsa completely. For my purposes it's all I needed. For more modifications I don't have sufficient knowledge. I tried to register on bugzilla of mozilla, but they didn't send me an activation email. Therefore, if someone else wants to send this bug-report to the mozilla community, feel free to do it. I had to downgrade back to Xulrunner-1.9.0 because Eclipse-3.4 didn't work with Xulrunner-1.9.1. And at the moment that's more important to me.
(In reply to comment #5) > Created an attachment (id=196761) [edit] > Patch to make Firefox and Xulrunner compile without alsa > Upstream will never include this no point in opening a bug about it upstream as I will close it invalid. There has been much talk about this and until oss4 is released as a final over alsa in kernel nothing will change.
Without regard to oss4, this patch is still interesting in order to be able to a firefox without alsa (as we already have xulrunner without it). Demonstrations machines, and in my case my work machine, don't need sound in the first place, thus alsa but need firefox to search on the web. a -alsa or -ogg flag on firefox-3.5 would be a great thing.
(In reply to comment #12) > Without regard to oss4, this patch is still interesting in order to be able to > a firefox without alsa > (as we already have xulrunner without it). > > Demonstrations machines, and in my case my work machine, don't need sound in > the first place, thus alsa > but need firefox to search on the web. > > a -alsa or -ogg flag on firefox-3.5 would be a great thing. > This has already been fixed in the tree.
