[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Success at last with Sound #15

[Raahul Kumar <raahul_da_man@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Raimar Falke <hawk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 11:26:49AM +0100, Per I. Mathisen wrote:
> > On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, Raimar Falke wrote:
> > > > checking for esd-config... /usr/bin/esd-config
> > > > checking for ESD - version >= 0.0.20... no
> > > > *** Could not run ESD test program, checking why...
> > > > *** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file config.log
> for the
> > > > *** exact error that occured. This usually means ESD was incorrectly
> installed
> > > > *** or that you have moved ESD since it was installed. In the latter
> case, you
> > > > *** may want to edit the esd-config script: /usr/bin/esd-config
> > >
> > > Per?
> > 
> > This test is taken unchanged from esound itself (the esd.m4 included in
> > the esound distribution). Now, since you (Raimar) gave him (Raahul) your
> > aclocal.m4, he quite possibly has an esd.m4 which is newer/older/different
> > than the one he should/would have if he generated the aclocal.m4 himself,
> > including the esd.m4 presumably sitting on his own system.
> > 
> > Raahul: Look in "aclocal.m4" and find the version of the esd macro. Try
> > running "aclocal" and rerunning, then see if this version number changes
> > or if it works. Peek into your /usr/(local/)share/aclocal directory and
> > see if you have an esd.m4 file there, and what its version number is.
> > 
> > If you don't have esd.m4 on your system, you didn't install esound-dev (or
> > whatever the rpm is called), so try doing that. If the version number is
> > not at fault, Mandrake simply shipped a broken esound package.
> 
> What happens if a test is in acinclude.m4 and a m4 file in
> /usr/(local/)share/aclocal? Which ones gets chosen? Or is something
> like this invalid? Is this done using the "#serial" string? The ESD
> stuff doesn't contain a "#serial" statement like the GETTEXT stuff.
> 
>       Raimar
> 

I've solved my ESD problems as Per suggested, by 

copying aclocal.m4 over acinclue.m4
Installing the esound-devel library

The sound patch works well for me. Two thumbs up.

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