[pulseaudio-discuss] New build dependency libcap-dev ?

Kaskinen, Tanu tanu.kaskinen at intel.com
Tue Feb 25 08:31:18 PST 2014


On Tue, 2014-02-25 at 17:03 +0100, David Henningsson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> While building PulseAudio git on Ubuntu 12.04, I noticed that I had to
> install the libcap-dev package, to get sys/capability.h. This was not
> required before, at least not by default.

It's not a new build dependency, but it's now required by default.
--without-caps can still be used to build without libcap.

> Looking at https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72580 it seems
> this change is intentional. If so, we should probably release note it.

I now added this to the notes.

-- 
Tanu


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