Jan Stary <hans@xxxxxxxx> writes: >> >> > How is using alsa/oss/sndio/whatever >> >> > related to creating symlinks (or not)? >> >> > >> >> > Why do we have both SYMLINKS and PLAYRECLINKS? >> >> > Why is this different for play/rec vs soxi (also below)? >> >> > >> >> > Naively, I would assume we want to create symlinks >> >> > for each of play, rec, soxi, or none of them. >> >> >> >> There is no point in creating play/rec symlinks >> >> when no audio devices are supported since they can't work then. >> > >> > The current build system seems to omit sunaudio and waveaudio >> > from the list above, but with the rationale you describe, >> > they should be there too, right? Or is this intended? >> >> Sorry, I missed that. >> >> > Anyway, the manpages still get symlinked even if play/rec don't, >> > e.g. when all the drivers ar explicitly disabled. Is that intended? >> >> I missed that too. The whole thing is a mess. > > I don't think the complexity is worth it at all. > > Why not just create a symlink for play, rec, and soxi, > and a symlink for the play.1 and rec.1 manpages, always? > > In the worst case, we create a needless symlink. > (And than the user plugs a soundcard in and runs play, > which is no longer needless, as opposed to recompiling). If sox was built without any audio device support, only rebuilding it is going to make 'play' or 'rec' do anything useful. -- Måns Rullgård _______________________________________________ Sox-users mailing list Sox-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sox-users
