[SOLVED] pulseaudio for mozilla-firefox.SlackBuild

czezz · 10-08-2014, 06:20 AM

I have started to build latest Firefox using SlackBuild for Slackware 14.0
Somewhere on the beginning of the process I have faced an issue with missing "pulseaudio".

I couldnt have found any package like this in official Slackware 14 repository.
Checked eg. here: http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/linux/slackw...ll-dvd.iso.txt

However, I have found it here on pkgs.org
http://pkgs.org/slackware-14.0/slack...-1gds.txz.html

Why this package (and possibly some others) is not included in the Slackware official repository ?

Alien Bob · 10-08-2014, 06:40 AM

Pulseaudio is not part of Slackware. If your compilation complains about a missing Pulseaudio dependency then you are doing something wrong. Look at missing source code configuration parameters.

Eric

ponce · 10-08-2014, 07:20 AM

the SlackBuild provided with slackware 14.0 is for an older version of the application, so just updating the sources is not enough: latest mozilla-firefox.Slackbuild in -current, beside other modifications, has a specific switch ("--disable-pulseaudio") that is needed for building latest versions of the application on Slackware (that, as Alien Bob is saying, does not provide pulseaudio).

if just adding the switch to the build script you are using is not enough, you can try to use latest script in -current but, AFAIK, it's untested on 14.0.

czezz · 10-08-2014, 07:55 AM

OK, that all make sense now.
Thanks for clarifications.

dugan · 10-08-2014, 09:27 AM

You may already know this, but another option is to use Ruario's script to package the latest Firefox binary tarball:

https://gist.github.com/ruario/9672798