[pulseaudio-discuss] installing header files

[Patrick Shirkey]

On 08/10/2009 12:03 AM, Colin Guthrie wrote:
> 'Twas brillig, and Patrick Shirkey at 08/08/09 12:16 did gyre and gimble:
>
>
>> I have the libs in /usr/lib64. Where should the include files go?
>
> Well, I think you're trying to manually copy things about here which 
> doesn't sound like  a very wise thing to do to be honest. I'd either 
> use a custom prefix that wont clobber your system packages or I'd just 
> build the source as an RPM that you can easily remove/upgrade etc later.
>

I did a temporary linkage to /usr/include/pulse but only so I could 
build the libflashsupport package which I was attempting to use to sort 
out the issue with libflashplayer.

I only did that because the 32 bit package removed the 
/usr/ibclude/pulse folder after I removed it. This in itself seems 
unusual as I still technically have the 64 bit packages installed as far 
as yum is concerned so I was expecting the headers not to be removed as 
IIUC the 32 bit build and the 64 bit build from the same version use the 
same headers.

That combined with a very long session of QA made me wonder if there was 
something wrong with the manual installation. However I should have 
double checked that first.

After removing the linked folder from /usr/include and reinstalling the 
custom build everything is in place.

I would also like to note that jack has support for running 32 bit apps 
natively on the 64 bit compile. Maybe that same logic can be applied to 
pulseaudio too?



Cheers.



Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd