[pulseaudio-discuss] PulseAudio support on Solaris

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Lennart Poettering at 17/10/11 02:48 did gyre and gimble:
>> 3) On Solaris, the PulseAudio GConf module does not compile since the
>>    "module_info" structure defined in the PulseAudio code conflicts
>>    with a structure with the same name in /usr/include/sys/stream.h.
>>    Could the PulseAudio code be updated to use a more unique PulseAudio
>>    specific name as suggested in the patch in this bug:
>>
>>    https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41823
>>
>>    Note that sys/stream.h is included by sys/types.h on Solaris, and
>>    sys/types.h is included in the src/modules/gconf/modules-gconf.c
>>    PulseAudio file.
> 
> The GConf code probably should go away anyway, and be replaced by dconf/gsettings.

While dconf/gsettings is an option, I'd be more in favour personally of
using whatever pa_database* stuff we use (this was my intension in this
area with module-loader).

I'm certainly not against dconf or whatever, but if we do migrate
module-gocnf to it, then I'd prefer to see dconf as a universal database
provider in PA like gdb, tdb, plaintext etc. Having two different
mechanisms of writing data to disk doesn't seem like the wises plan overall.

Col



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