<DIV>I have been trying and trying to get the sound working in mandrake and I cannot get it functional because I do not know how to apply the .diff patch to open al I have everything else configured to work properly just cand apply the ut patch to openal which is required to have it function<BR><BR><B><I>Jeff Woods <klaatu@fnordco.com></I></B> wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">I compiled SDL from CVS using the -O6 flag, and now I'm suffering from male pattern baldness. Should I file this in Bugzilla?<BR><BR>On Thu, 22 Apr 2004 02:30:27 -0400<BR>"Ryan C. Gordon" <ICCULUS@CLUTTEREDMIND.ORG>wrote:<BR><BR>> On Mon, 2004-04-19 at 16:28, Kristopher Kersey wrote:<BR>> > Which openal.so and libSDL-1.2.so.0 are you using? The ones that came<BR>> > with UT or your system ones? Which distro are you using? If you are<BR>> > still using the ones UT came with, I recommend linking<BR>> > System/libSDL-1.2.so.0 and System/openal.so to your system libs. Make<BR>> > sure you have the alsa libs and utils installed as well.<BR>> <BR>> btw, it's probably not a good idea to tell people to swap out the<BR>> openal/SDL unless they know what they're doing, or it eventually results<BR>> in a bogus bug report to me.<BR>> <BR>> If
people are using this with something like the Gentoo ebuilds which<BR>> will swap out the libraries with something known to be good, that's<BR>> fine, but since there's a lot of ut2004-specific fixes that went into<BR>> SDL and OpenAL cvs around when we went gold, just swapping in whatever<BR>> happens to be on someone's system is NOT a good idea, since it could be<BR>> several years out of date.<BR>> <BR>> I bring this up because everyone's flinch reaction is to swap out the<BR>> LGPL'd libraries now, and it's actually causing more problems than it's<BR>> solving for many people. Like, "I had a crash, so I changed out SDL.<BR>> Game still crashes." or "I stubbed my toe when I got out of bed this<BR>> morning, so I swapped out the openal.so in my ut2004 install. Toe still<BR>> hurts."<BR>> <BR>> --ryan.<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR><BR><BR>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR>"A classic is
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