[pulseaudio-discuss] pavucontrol: new release?

[Arun Raghavan]

On 23 March 2015 at 18:05, Felipe Sateler <fsateler at debian.org> wrote:
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> On 23 March 2015 at 03:15, David Henningsson
> <david.henningsson at canonical.com> wrote:
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>> On 2015-03-16 14:49, David Henningsson wrote:
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>>> On 2015-03-13 14:28, Peter Mattern wrote:
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>>>> Hello.
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>>>> The number of commits since last pavucontrol release isn't that high but
>>>> they do comprehend quite a lot of rather important bug fixes, imo.
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>>>> A probably related finding is that compiling 2.0 code on recent systems
>>>> seems to have issues.
>>>> E. g. on up-to-date Arch Linux x86_64 compiling the usual way seems to
>>>> work flawlessly but yields a binary segfaulting right upon start
>>>> (systemd journal: 'kernel: traps: pavucontrol[4102] general protection
>>>> ip:7f34c9809f3f sp:7fffd8d80820 error:0 in libgobject-2.0.so.0.4200.2').
>>>> Problem can't be seen with Git code.
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>>>> So all in all I'm wondering whether a minor or point release of
>>>> pavucontrol wouldn't make sense.
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>>> Indeed it would. I was actually about to do so, but then this flu thing
>>> went viral. I'm working on rebuilding myself into a less buggy state
>>> again before sneezing out an rc.
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>> Hrm, this pavucontrol application seems a bit difficult to test (and I do
>> want to test it before I release it...)
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>> How do you others do it? First, if I try an out-of-tree build, it fails
>> updating some README file. Second, if I don't, it does compile, but running
>> from build directory fails with Gtk::Builder::add_from_file throwing a
>> Glib::FileError. Any tricks I'm missing here?
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> In src/Makefile.am a flag is set to point pavucontrol to the glade file:
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> pavucontrol_CXXFLAGS+=-DGLADE_FILE=\"$(gladedir)/pavucontrol.glade\"
> #pavucontrol_CXXFLAGS+=-DGLADE_FILE=\"pavucontrol.glade\"
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> Comment the first and uncomment the second and you will be able to run it.
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> That is what I've done to test.


Also works to make install first (prefixed install) and then run from
the build dir.

-- Arun