[pulseaudio-discuss] PA and OS X

[Tanu Kaskinen]

pe, 2009-07-17 kello 04:14 +1000, Kim Lester kirjoitti:
> All,
> 
> I'm considering using PA for some projects.
> I have both Mac and Linux boxes. I would like to consider porting it  
> to Mac.

Great! Do you think you could be able to keep the Mac port working as
new versions are released? It would be pity to see a situation like with
the Windows port, latest build being version 0.9.6 from 2007.

Do you possibly want to develop audio interfacing for Mac too? There
would be two separate projects: an output module for playing sound from
PA and a virtual sound card driver for redirecting sound from any
program to PA.

> Well I'm having a look but am unfortunately stumped at step one.
> I git clone'd  PA.
> I didn't bother trying to sort out dependencies yet - just wanted to  
> get a compile started
> I'm using macports and did instalautoconf 2.63, intltool, gettext

The errors you are getting mean that you have too old automake. Version
1.11 is required.

(The following is written as if you were using Linux - I don't know if
the following is valid advice for Macs.) If you have to install automake
from source and you choose /usr/local/ as the installation prefix, at
least I ran into the problem that aclocal searches .m4 files
from /usr/local/share/aclocal, while some (most?) of the needed .m4
files are located at /usr/share/aclocal. I worked around the problem by
copying everything from /usr/share/aclocal to /usr/local/share/aclocal.
That's of course a very dirty workaround. If someone knows how to tell
aclocal to use both directories, I'd be interested. aclocal accepts the
-I parameter, but I don't know where that should be specified in the
build/configure scripts.

Hopefully this helps at least a little.

-- 
Tanu Kaskinen