[quake3] Fwd: RE: [Openal] Null Pointer crash in Linux openal

[Ludwig Nussel]

Thilo Schulz wrote:
> Parts from a posting on the OpenAL mailing list:
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> Subject: RE: [Openal] Null Pointer crash in Linux openal
> Date: Tuesday 31 October 2006 10:25
> From: "Sven Panne" <sven.panne at benqmobile.com>
> To: "Thilo Schulz" <arny at ats.s.bawue.de>, openal at opensource.creative.com
> 
> One minor point: The default dynamic OpenAL library ioquake3 tries to
> load is "libopenal.so.0", but the trunk has a major version of 1
> nowadays. For ioquake3's purposes these are compatible, and in general I
> propose to drop the major version number from the filename when
> dlopening OpenAL. I know that the exact name can be changed via a
> configuration file, but running out-of-the-box with a recent OpenAL
> version would be nice.
> 
> Cheers,
>    S.
> 
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> 
> Should this be done for ioquake3?

No. As I wrote on the openal list we could try to open the new
SONAME and implement a fallback to the old SONAME.

cu
Ludwig

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