Bug 55799 – audacity : add ALSA support

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED LATER

[Description Frédéric COIFFIER 2004-07-01 08:17:54 UTC]

As explained at this URL :
http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.pl?LinuxIssues
Audacity can be used with ALSA.

Is it possible to add this possibility to the audacity ebuild ? For example, with an environment variabl (as this feature is still experimental).

I tried to add the "--with-portaudio=v19 --without-portmixer" option to the ebuild, but some compilation errors occur :

Type 'make' to build libresample and tests.
configure: configuring in lib-src/portaudio-v19
configure: running /bin/sh './configure' --prefix=/usr  '--prefix=/usr' '--host=i686-pc-linux-gnu' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--datadir=/usr/share' '--sysconfdir=/etc' '--localstatedir=/var/lib' '--with-portaudio=v19' '--without-portmixer' '--with-id3tag=system' '--with-libmad=system' '--with-libflac=none' '--with-vorbis=system' 'CC=gcc' 'CFLAGS=-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer' 'CXXFLAGS=-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer' 'CXX=g++' 'host_alias=i686-pc-linux-gnu' --cache-file=/dev/null --srcdir=.
configure: warning: CC=gcc: invalid host type
configure: warning: CFLAGS=-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer: invalid host type
configure: error: can only configure for one host and one target at a time
configure: error: /bin/sh './configure' failed for lib-src/portaudio-v19

!!! ERROR: media-sound/audacity-1.2.1 failed.
!!! Function econf, Line 365, Exitcode 1
!!! econf failed


Reproducible: Always
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[Comment 1 Jeremy Huddleston (RETIRED) 2004-07-02 04:47:39 UTC]

portaudio-19 is not out yet.

[Comment 2 Richard Ash 2005-04-12 11:09:43 UTC]

Vey true. the fix for the configure issue (at the terminal at least) is to do 
$ env -i ./configure
instead. This seems to be fine with 1.2.3. Beware that currently portaudio v19 breaks when newer ALSA comes out quite often.