[csw-maintainers] New library 'jack' wants to be build with 'waf'

Dagobert Michelsen dam at opencsw.org
Mon Nov 2 15:59:45 CET 2009


Hi Maciej,

Am 02.11.2009 um 15:49 schrieb Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski:
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Dagobert Michelsen  
> <dam at opencsw.org> wrote:
>> I just tried to build a dependency for libsndfile 'jack' which wants
>> to be built with the waf build system:
>>  http://code.google.com/p/waf/
>>
>> I haven't seen much of it, by I already hate it... Maybe someone  
>> has already
>> gained some experience with it? I tried adding support for WAF to GAR
>> and made preliminary makefile for jack, everything is in GAR.
>
> Are you sure it's not using autotools? A quick look at the jack  
> sources:
>
> http://subversion.jackaudio.org/jack/trunk/jack/
>
> Looks autotools-ey to me.

That is "Jack", while for Solaris "Jack2" is needed:
   http://jackaudio.org/download
That code is here:
   http://subversion.jackaudio.org/jack/jack2/trunk/jackmp/
and no longer based on autotools :-(


Best regards

   -- Dago



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