Bug 258970

Summary:	oss shouldn't be in use.mask on supported platforms
Product:	Gentoo/Alt	Reporter:	Florian Ermisch <floh.edo>
Component:	Prefix Support	Assignee:	Gentoo Prefix <prefix>
Status:	RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Solaris
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Florian Ermisch 2009-02-14 14:39:06 UTC

especially it shouldn't be in the "# these will more than likely never work on solaris" section.
from http://www.4front-tech.com/developer/sources/stable/cddl/oss-v4.1-build1051-src-cddl.txt:
OSS is currently compatible with the following operating systems and processor 
architectures. Other environments may be supported later.

Operating system	Version			Processor architecture

Solaris/OpenSolaris	10 or later		x86, amd64, Sparc (64 bit)
Linux			2.6 or later		x86, x86_64
FreeBSD			6 or later		x86, x86_64
SCO UnixWare		7 or later		x86
SCO OpenServer		6 or later		x86


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Florian Ermisch 2009-02-14 16:01:09 UTC

I admit, building a working oss-ebuild or even adapting one from gentoo-linux is a non-trivial task...

Comment 2 Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) archtester

2009-02-19 22:41:31 UTC

So what do you have working? I'm confused here ;)

Do we unmask it because it does work? Or is this a hypothetical situation that it "should work" ?

Comment 3 Florian Ermisch 2009-02-20 10:30:15 UTC

libao can be build with (autodetected) oss support when the headers are supplied externally (i.e. from blastwave.org) and some ugly things to get those used by the ebuild. libao is a little b0rked, skipping leads to a frozen mplayer/mpd/whatever (stuck in nanosleep() or something).
so it works but has an external dependancy as long as there's no working oss ebuild which also provides a method to install (or link?) the OSS drivers into the root-filesystem - well gotta go, an exam is waiting for me (well they are prolly _not_ waiting for me...)

Comment 4 Fabian Groffen gentoo-dev

2009-03-02 20:26:43 UTC

if it works, we need to remove it from the mask, otherwise ... ?