Bug 72173

Summary:	Please make it possible to build pulseaudio libs without the daemon
Product:	PulseAudio	Reporter:	Michał Górny <mgorny>
Component:	build-system	Assignee:	pulseaudio-bugs
Status:	RESOLVED MOVED	QA Contact:	pulseaudio-bugs
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	medium	CC:	arun, lennart, mail
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:
Attachments:	build-sys: Add a configure flag for building only client libs

Description Michał Górny 2013-11-30 14:56:35 UTC

When building PulseAudio for multilib systems, it is necessary to build multiple variants of the PA library but it is enough to build the daemon just for the native system.

Since the daemon and modules have a lot of dependencies, it would be really helpful for us if PulseAudio provided a switch that could turn off building them and the relevant configure checks.

If you agree with implementing something like this, I'd be happy to try to provide a patch for configure.ac and Makefiles.

Comment 1 Arun Raghavan 2013-11-30 20:38:21 UTC

If the patch isn't too intrusive, I'd be fine with this.

Comment 2 Michał Górny 2014-02-17 08:49:36 UTC

Just to be clear, what goes into 'too intrusive'? I'm afraid the configure.ac would need a major shuffle. A lot of checks would go under a big AS_IF(), and the relevant AM_CONDITIONALs would have to be moved below it. Would that be a problem?

Comment 3 Tanu Kaskinen 2014-02-19 09:12:49 UTC

I don't think a major shuffle in configure.ac is a problem.

Could you give details of what changes you plan for the configure script interface? Will there be a new --enable-daemon option that defaults to "yes"? Or something else?

Comment 4 Michał Górny 2014-02-19 13:46:13 UTC

Yes, I was specifically thinking about --enable-server or --enable-binaries, since I don't want to unnecessary build client executables as well. Then make all the configure checks and Makefile rules that aren't used for the libraries conditional to this switch.

Comment 5 Tanu Kaskinen 2014-02-19 19:29:25 UTC

--enable-binaries sounds good to me.

Comment 6 Arun Raghavan 2014-12-15 08:35:01 UTC

Created attachment 110846 [details] [review]
build-sys: Add a configure flag for building only client libs

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