Bug 40796

Summary:	Add info about running from build directory to README
Product:	PulseAudio	Reporter:	Antonio Ospite <ao2>
Component:	misc	Assignee:	pulseaudio-bugs
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	pulseaudio-bugs
Severity:	trivial
Priority:	medium	CC:	colin, lennart
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:
Attachments:	0001-doc-Add-info-about-running-pulseaudio-from-the-build.patch

Description Antonio Ospite 2011-09-12 02:57:11 UTC

Created attachment 51065 [details] [review]
0001-doc-Add-info-about-running-pulseaudio-from-the-build.patch

Hi,

when I downloaded the source code the first thing I tried was to run the binary from the build directory, and for newcomers it isn't obvious how to do that with pulseaudio; adding an HACKING section to README, mentioning __OPTIMIZE__ and pa_run_from_build_tree(), could help. See the attached patch.

I also noticed that the other sections in README do not refer to the new project entry points at freedesktop.org, I didn't touch that part but you might want to fix that as well.

Thanks,
   Antonio Ospite
   http://ao2.it

Comment 1 Colin Guthrie 2011-09-14 01:21:07 UTC

Applied, thanks!

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