[pulseaudio-discuss] [PATCH] padsp: allow overriding library install location

[Tanu Kaskinen]

On Mon, 2016-11-28 at 14:49 -0300, Felipe Sateler wrote:
> The current build script hardcodes the $pkglibdir in the padsp command.
> This works and is a reasonable default. However, distributions that
> know where they install, can override this path and thus make padsp
> work for any architecture that has the library installed by using the
> following configure argument:
> 
>    --with-pulsedsp-location='/usr/\\$$LIB/pulseaudio'
> 
> This works because ld.so considers $LIB a variable that will expand to
> several location paths, depending on the architecture of the binary
> being executed.
> 
> In debian, for example, this would work for libpulsedsp.so installed in
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ for amd64 and /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/ for
> i386, with a single padsp command.
> 
> ---
> 
> The idea is that pulseaudio-utils package can provide the padsp command, and
> the dsp wrapper for multiple architecture can be co-installed. Then the loader
> does the job of picking which library to use according to the running program's
> architecture.
> 
> ---
>  configure.ac       | 8 ++++++++
>  src/Makefile.am    | 2 +-
>  src/utils/padsp.in | 4 ++--
>  3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Thanks! Applied to the "next" branch.

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