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libsidplay for DEBIAN/Linux
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This package was debianised, packaged and is currently maintained by me,
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Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler <ujr@debian.org>, from the sources that I obtained
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from the SidPlay HomePage at
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http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/5147/
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Packaging was taken over by Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS) <gcs@debian.hu>
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The author can be reached by mailing him to sidplay@geocities.com.
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Generally I'm using pristine sources (since version 1.36.11).
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First, there were .tgz's provided by the author. Later on he
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moved to src.rpm's. These were unpacked by
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rpm -i sidplay-{version}.src.rpm
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and
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rpm -bp sidplay-{version}.spec (or just rpm -bp sidplay.spec)
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So far, both libsidplay and sidplay were distributed in one package.
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However, recently the upstream archives are split into libsidplay
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and sidplay-base. We will use this layout too.
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Sometimes the author supplies patches for new upstream versions before
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he uploads a complete new version to the location above. These patches
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are also used if appropriate.
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Version 1.36.20 (and newer) use GNU autoconf. ./configure is automatically
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run as part of rpm -bp, which agrees perfectly to our policy and
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packaging manual. Unfortunately, it doesn't simplify the package build
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in debian/rules very much, because we need to compile static and shared
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libraries with different compiler flags.
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Besides, the cache file remains in the archive and doesn't get rebuild on
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other architecture (simply because it exists). First, I added a 'distclean'
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target to Makefile.in myself, now it is already included in the upstream
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sources. This means, we can call it in "debian/rules clean" and (re)run
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./configure afterwards during "debian/rules build" to recreate the
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information on every other supported architecture.
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In 1.36.18 I changed the major version of the library (and therefore its
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soname as well) from 1 to 1.36 in order to synchronize with the upstream
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sources again (the upstream author made this change already in 1.36.11).
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Starting in version 1.36.36 (maybe that was the reason for the splitting),
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libtool is used. Unfortunately, somehow this changed the sonames to 1.0.0,
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which is not any longer consistent with the library version and could in
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fact violate policy somehow. I must admit, I have not yet completely understood
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the libtool usage, so I have still to investigate this. But hey, that's
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what unstable is for...
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The only really remarkable point while adding support for the Debian package
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maintenance scheme was the execution of the upstream Makefiles with CXXFLAGS
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including -fPIC and -D_REENTRANT (according to the policy manual).
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Don't use gcc/g++ 2.7.2 with optimisation to build this package! It will
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produce bad code. Fortunately, gcc/g++ > 2.95 is now the default C/C++
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compiler in Debian. The egcs successor seems to create stable programs with
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all necessary commandline options, even -fPIC, -g and optimizations (what gcc
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didn't).
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The package contains now the updated html-info files from the SidPlay-Homepage,
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which don't actually belong to the upstream source, but fit very well (IMHO).
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This is an invaluable piece of information for SidPlay interna and background.
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These files replace the outdated sidplay-info files, which were included in
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previous versions.
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The files are small enough to justify the addition, and to prevent splitting
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them into something like a libsidplay-doc package.
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Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler <ujr@debian.org>, Fri, 12 May 2000 15:32:48 +0200
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vim:tw=79
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