Bug 171942 – games-emulation/dosbox does not honour USE=-alsa

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) 2007-03-23 17:22:42 UTC]

Just had time to check on it (I removed it when it failed without midi support enabled, now I tried installing it on another box), with USE=-alsa dosbox doesn't actually disable ALSA support, see the attached log, and note this:

checking for ALSA CFLAGS...  -Ino
checking for ALSA LDFLAGS...  -Lno -lasound -lm -ldl -lpthread

HTH,
Diego

[Comment 1 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) 2007-03-23 17:23:19 UTC]

Created attachment 114155 [details]
dosbox build log

[Comment 2 ebfe 2007-03-23 20:50:17 UTC]

diego is right, dosbox always binds to alsa if it finds it.

may it be a solution to patch config.in and run autoconf again?

-AM_PATH_ALSA(0.9.0, AC_DEFINE(HAVE_ALSA,1,[Define to 1 to use ALSA for MIDI]) , : )
+AC_ARG_ENABLE(alsa,AC_HELP_STRING([--enable-alsa],[Enable ALSA for MIDI]),[
+       AM_PATH_ALSA(0.9.0, AC_DEFINE(HAVE_ALSA,1,[Define to 1 to use ALSA for MIDI]) , : )
+])

[Comment 3 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) 2007-03-26 08:27:59 UTC]

hmmmm, nope, not good enough.  Still pulls in alsa even with this patch and --disable-alsa

[Comment 4 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) 2007-03-26 08:42:01 UTC]

You misunderstood the parameters of AC_ARG_ENABLE, see [1], third last parameter.Also see [2] for other example on how to fix this kind of dependency.

[1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/articles/autotools-practices.xml
[2] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/automagic.xml

[Comment 5 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) 2007-04-09 19:06:30 UTC]

the next release of dosbox will have the autotool stuff fixed up.  Forced alsa on for now.

[Comment 6 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-04-10 07:58:46 UTC]

*** Bug 173996 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***