pulseaudio slackware 13.1x64

alpha_hack · 09-02-2010, 08:52 PM

Hey

I've recently switched to Slackware 13.1x64.
I can't get pulseaudio to work. Is it available for 64 bit machines or I have to build it with the 32 bit compiler ( I've added 32 support and I can compile/run 32 bit programs)

Is there any chance a packet could be released for 13.1x64 ?

Thanks in advance,
Me

Drakeo · 09-02-2010, 09:38 PM

Quote:

http://slackbuilds.org/repository/13...io/pulseaudio/

and get the build scripts. extract it.
then get the latest pulseaudio http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/...-0.9.21.tar.gz
and place it in your pulse audio folder you created when you extracted it.
for 64 bit you edit the pulseaudio.SlackBuild change the build script to

Quote:

PRGNAM=pulseaudio
VERSION=0.9.10 <------ change to 0.9.21
ARCH=${ARCH:-i486} <----change to x86_64
BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}

no need for multi lib
make sure theses are installed

Quote:

Pulseaudio requires libatomic_ops, libsamplerate, and libsndfile.
It will also make use of jack-audio-connection-kit. All of these
dependencies are available at SlackBuilds.org.

libatomic_ops is in slackbuild 13.1
libsamplerate is in slacbuild 13.0

Note pulse audie 0.9.10 will not build with the gcc 4.4.4 that is why you need the new one 0.9.21
If you have a problem email me I will send you the prebuilt packages.

Mark Pettit · 09-03-2010, 01:19 AM

Please don't take this as any form of criticism - I just find it quite amusing that there are hundreds of articles on how to remove PulseAudio from Ubuntu, and here we find people trying to get it into Slackware. Jokes aside, I do think the intentions (ie goal) of PulseAudio is great and I hope you come right :-)

alpha_hack · 09-06-2010, 06:58 PM

Hey,

@Drakeo: Thank you very much! I've tried that a couple of times but it didn't work. After your post I found out that for some reason libsndfile was in /usr/lib... and that confused the auto configuration.
After installing libsndfile to the right paths and etc this slackbuild worked just fine.

If you're planning on having the scripts from Slackbuild.org make sure that your libdir is set to /usr/lib64. With me it putted the libraries to /usr/lib and that's why I couldn't recompile gnome-media (contains gnome volume control and etc...)

If you're planning to recompile GSB gnome-media - download the scripts from http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/gsb/gsb64-...p/gnome-media/ .

If while compiling you get this error:

Code:

checking build system type... configure: error: /bin/sh build-aux/config.sub --linux failed
configure: WARNING: cache variable ac_cv_build contains a newline

Open up gnome-media.SlackBuild, find&replace this:

Code:

Find:
# Configure.
CFLAGS="$TUNE_CFLAGS $EXTRA_CFLAGS" CXXFLAGS="$TUNE_CFLAGS $EXTRA_CFLAGS" \
  ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib \
  --mandir=/usr/man $CONFIGURE_FLAGS \
  --libdir=/usr/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX} \
  --build=$ARCH-$DISTRO-linux \
  --target=$ARCH-$DISTRO-linux \
  --disable-static \
  --enable-shared \
  --disable-schemas-install \
  --disable-pulseaudio \
  --enable-silent-rules \
  --enable-gstmix \
  --enable-gstprops \
  || exit 1

Replace with:
# Configure.
CFLAGS="$TUNE_CFLAGS $EXTRA_CFLAGS" CXXFLAGS="$TUNE_CFLAGS $EXTRA_CFLAGS" \
  ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib \
  --mandir=/usr/man $CONFIGURE_FLAGS \
  --libdir=/usr/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX} \
  --build=$ARCH-$DISTRO-linux \
  --target=$ARCH-$DISTRO-linux \
  --disable-static \
  --enable-shared \
  --disable-schemas-install \
  --disable-pulseaudio \
  --enable-silent-rules \
  --enable-gstmix \
  --enable-gstprops \
#  || exit 1

If that doesn't fix it for you... try just running /tmp/gnome-media-*/.configure. If that goes through without errors then try building it from the SlackBuild. I don't know why or how that fixes it ... it just worked for me.... Don't wanna know...

If I have some time I'll post this into the LQ Wiki db.

Again - thanks and good luck to others

Drakeo · 09-07-2010, 11:37 PM

Quote:

PRGNAM=pulseaudio
VERSION=0.9.10 <------ change to 0.9.21
ARCH=${ARCH:-i486} <----change to x86_64
BUILD=${BUILD:-1}

go look at the scripts that is why theses changes are a must.
For libsndfile this handles it

Quote:

PRGNAM=libsndfile
VERSION=1.0.20
BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}

# Automatically determine the architecture we're building on:
if [ -z "$ARCH" ]; then
case "$( uname -m )" in
i?86) ARCH=i486 ;;
arm*) ARCH=arm ;;
# Unless $ARCH is already set, use uname -m for all other archs:
*) ARCH=$( uname -m ) ;;
esac
fi

CWD=$(pwd)
TMP=${TMP:-/tmp/SBo}
PKG=$TMP/package-$PRGNAM
OUTPUT=${OUTPUT:-/tmp}

if [ "$ARCH" = "i486" ]; then
SLKCFLAGS="-O2 -march=i486 -mtune=i686"
LIBDIRSUFFIX=""
elif [ "$ARCH" = "i686" ]; then
SLKCFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -mtune=i686"
LIBDIRSUFFIX=""
elif [ "$ARCH" = "x86_64" ]; then
SLKCFLAGS="-O2 -fPIC"
LIBDIRSUFFIX="64"
else
SLKCFLAGS="-O2"
LIBDIRSUFFIX=""
fi

this is why we use the slack scripts for 13.1 and some of 13.0 they use this small script to set up arch and /usr/lib64

Quote:

# Automatically determine the architecture we're building on:
if [ -z "$ARCH" ]; then
case "$( uname -m )" in
i?86) ARCH=i486 ;;
arm*) ARCH=arm ;;
# Unless $ARCH is already set, use uname -m for all other archs:
*) ARCH=$( uname -m ) ;;
esac
fi

I added it to the 13.0 scripts after changing the version. then submitted it to Slackbuilds. Robby asked if I wanted to maintain it. I have no real love for pulseaudio.

rmjohnso · 09-09-2010, 01:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by alpha_hack

Hey

I've recently switched to Slackware 13.1x64.
I can't get pulseaudio to work. Is it available for 64 bit machines or I have to build it with the 32 bit compiler ( I've added 32 support and I can compile/run 32 bit programs)

Is there any chance a packet could be released for 13.1x64 ?

Thanks in advance,
Me

You may be interested in some of the things I encountered in my attempt to play with pulseaudio back in March.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...urrent-792080/

Basically, follow the build order from SlackBuilds.org (as others have suggested). You don't need to install GSB or another gnome based Slackware install to use pulse. However, you will need to do that if you want to build the nice GUI pulseaudio control applications.