Since USE=pulseaudio unconditionally pulls pulseaudio, seemingly from mozconfig-v6.52.eclass DEPEND: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N ] net-libs/libasyncns-0.8-r4::gentoo USE="-debug -doc" ABI_X86="32 (64) (-x32)" 334 KiB [ebuild N ] media-libs/webrtc-audio-processing-0.3.1::gentoo USE="-static-libs" ABI_X86="(64) -32 (-x32)" 680 KiB [ebuild N ] media-sound/pulseaudio-12.2::gentoo USE="X alsa asyncns bluetooth caps dbus gdbm glib gtk ipv6 jack libsamplerate native-headset ssl tcpd udev webrtc-aec -alsa-plugin -doc -equalizer -gconf -libressl -lirc (-neon) -ofono-headset -orc (-oss) -qt5 -realtime (-selinux) -sox (-system-wide) -systemd -test -zeroconf" ABI_X86="32 (64) (-x32)" 1627 KiB [ebuild R ] www-client/firefox-52.9.0::gentoo USE="dbus hardened jack jemalloc pulseaudio* system-icu system-jpeg system-sqlite -bindist -custom-cflags -custom-optimization -debug -eme-free (-gmp-autoupdate) -gtk2 -hwaccel (-neon) -pgo (-rust) (-selinux) -startup-notification (-system-cairo) -system-harfbuzz -system-libevent -system-libvpx -test -wifi" L10N="-ach -af -an -ar -as -ast -az -bg -bn-BD -bn-IN -br -bs -ca -cak -cs -cy -da -de -dsb -el -en-GB -en-ZA -eo -es-AR -es-CL -es-ES -es-MX -et -eu -fa -ff -fi -fr -fy -ga -gd -gl -gn -gu -he -hi -hr -hsb -hu -hy -id -is -it -ja -ka -kab -kk -km -kn -ko -lij -lt -lv -mai -mk -ml -mr -ms -nb -nl -nn -or -pa -pl -pt-BR -pt-PT -rm -ro -ru -si -sk -sl -son -sq -sr -sv -ta -te -th -tr -uk -uz -vi -xh -zh-CN -zh-TW" 0 KiB [blocks B ] media-sound/pulseaudio ("media-sound/pulseaudio" is blocking media-sound/apulse-0.1.12) pulseaudio? ( media-sound/pulseaudio )
By the way, with USE=-pulseaudio even though libasound.so is loaded by firefox (as seen in strace), it doesn't try producing sounds with it.
(In reply to Sergey 'L29Ah' Alirzaev from comment #1) > By the way, with USE=-pulseaudio even though libasound.so is loaded by > firefox (as seen in strace), it doesn't try producing sounds with it. Okay, nvm, the sound works in youtube at least.
(In reply to Sergey 'L29Ah' Alirzaev from comment #2) > Okay, nvm, the sound works in youtube at least. I understand this as "report is invalid, it works for me". If that's wrong, please re-open. But please focus on next ESR version (firefox-60.2.0), 52.x has reached EOL since 3 days.
The comments about working alsa have nothing to do with inability to build it w/ apulse.
Dependency on media-sound/pulseaudio was motivated by media-sound/apulse not installing PulseAudio headers. This has changed in >=media-sound/apulse-0.1.12 which has "pa-headers" USE flag (enabled by default): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=54cd339b91bc2008c8d21797a5f7e1daac12b160 Make this change in DEPEND: - pulseaudio? ( media-sound/pulseaudio ) + pulseaudio? ( || ( + media-sound/pulseaudio + >=media-sound/apulse-0.1.12[pa-headers] + ) ) ... And check if building www-client/firefox with >=media-sound/apulse-0.1.12[pa-headers] will be successful.
I was trying to build against media-sound/apulse[pa-headers] and it failed in configure complaining about pulseaudio's inavailability.
0:08.25 checking for libpulse... no 0:08.25 ERROR: Package libpulse was not found in the pkg-config search path. 0:08.25 ERROR: Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libpulse.pc' 0:08.25 ERROR: to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable 0:08.25 ERROR: No package 'libpulse' found 0:08.30 *** Fix above errors and then restart with\ 0:08.30 "/usr/bin/gmake -f client.mk build" 0:08.30 gmake: *** [client.mk:127: configure] Error 1
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/misc/apulse/pressureaudio.nix creates a few .pc files, i'll have a try doing the same.
Sergey, I'll try to add libpulse.pc file to apulse this weekend.
(In reply to Andrew Savchenko from comment #9) > Sergey, I'll try to add libpulse.pc file to apulse this weekend. Done! See apulse-0.12-r1[sdk]. In SDK mode apulse attempts to replace pulseaudio: headers and pkg-config files are provided, and libraries are installed in the same paths (/usr/$(get_libdir) instead of /usr/$(get_libdir)/apulse). This way the apulse wrapper script is no longer needed. I tested it as binary replacement with firefox-bin and steam — works fine with both. Build with apulse[sdk] was tested with espeak and sox, the latter needs small patching to build and _sometimes_ fails at runtime :/. Can't test with firefox right now, since I have unrelated build problems with rust. Please test if firefox builds and works with apulse[sdk]. You need to remove apulse symlinks generation from pkg_preinst(), though, because in SDK mode library paths are standard.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=7914727703f77d6258e9098e9b154a39cddc49c5 commit 7914727703f77d6258e9098e9b154a39cddc49c5 Author: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2020-03-27 22:02:12 +0000 Commit: Thomas Deutschmann <whissi@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2020-03-30 11:45:08 +0000 www-client/firefox: allow building with >=media-sound/apulse-0.1.12-r4[sdk] Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/665470 Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.96, Repoman-2.3.22 Signed-off-by: Thomas Deutschmann <whissi@gentoo.org> www-client/firefox/firefox-74.0-r2.ebuild | 826 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 826 insertions(+)