Bug 613692 – Re-enable ALSA in www-client/firefox-52

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Description tkzv 2017-03-23 22:06:43 UTC]

Created attachment 468096 [details]
firefox ebuild with alsa USE flag

Starting with Firefox version 52, ALSA sound output is disabled and everybody is expected to switch to PulseAudio. Building with --disable-pulseaudio results in no sound. According to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1345661 ALSA may be returned in the future.

However, unsupported ALSA code is still there and the switch --enable-alsa still works. The attached firefox-52.0.1-r2.ebuild allows to get sound in ALSA-only systems with www-client/firefox-52.* if you build it with USE="alsa".

The ebuild has been tested in AMD64 Linux system with ALSA and without PulseAudio, and the sound works.

[Comment 1 tkzv 2017-03-23 22:09:11 UTC]

Created attachment 468098 [details, diff]
diff between 52.0.1-r1 from the official tree and suggested 52.0.1-r2

[Comment 2 Brian Evans (RETIRED) 2017-03-23 22:29:11 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 613370 ***

[Comment 3 tkzv 2017-03-23 22:52:19 UTC]

(In reply to Brian Evans from comment #2)
> 
> *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 613370 ***

The ebuild 52.0.1-r1 from 613370 does not work for me. Should I change status back to UNCONFIRMED?

[Comment 4 Brian Evans (RETIRED) 2017-03-23 23:03:53 UTC]

(In reply to tkzv from comment #3)
> (In reply to Brian Evans from comment #2)
> > 
> > *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 613370 ***
> 
> The ebuild 52.0.1-r1 from 613370 does not work for me. Should I change
> status back to UNCONFIRMED?

--enable-alsa is already passed in 52.0.1-r1 in the eclass

Since this bug is about adding said support, it is a duplicate.

[Comment 5 Ian Stakenvicius (RETIRED) 2017-03-24 01:18:29 UTC]

(In reply to tkzv from comment #3)
> (In reply to Brian Evans from comment #2)
> > 
> > *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 613370 ***
> 
> The ebuild 52.0.1-r1 from 613370 does not work for me. Should I change
> status back to UNCONFIRMED?

Did you just copy that ebuild onto your system via overlay somehow or did you upgrade to it using a full --sync of the gentoo repo?  If the former, that's why it didn't work; the configuration change was made in the eclass rather than the ebuild, and the ebuild was revbumped merely to force a reinstall for USE="-pulseaudio" users due to the usual changed-files-on-disk = revbump policy.

[Comment 6 tkzv 2017-03-24 19:40:27 UTC]

Full --sync and then rebuild. I updated from version 51.0.1, though.