Re: skype is really stale

[clayton <langexnet%bbn.cn@localhost>]

On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 15:29:59 +0200
Roland Illig <rillig%NetBSD.org@localhost> wrote:

> clayton wrote:
> 
> > Current version in pkgsrc is skype_staticQT-1.2.0.18, which is
> > giving me some problems (crappy audio, can't access my USB
> > headphones) that I think the latest and greatest skype version
> > 1.4.0.99 might do better with.
> > 
> > I tried a couple of simple Makefile hacks:
> > * changed skype_staticQT-1.2.0.18 to skype_staticQT-1.4.0.99, which
> > found nothing to download.
> > * changed skype_staticQT-1.2.0.18 to skype-1.4.0.99, which
> > downloaded skype-1.4.0.99.tar.bz2 from skype, but had some fatal
> > errors on "make install".
> 
> It would have been helpful to see the actual error messages. Even if 
> they are of no use for you, some others usually understand what's
> wrong and can help you.
> 
> I've updated it. Please try if it works now.
> Roland

Hi Roland,

Thanks for the quick update. I am not seeing the errors I saw before and
we are onto a new problem now. The new skype installs OK, but when I try
to run it I get this:

{2} skype&
{3} ./skype: error while loading shared libraries: libasound.so.2:
cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

There would appear to be a missing library, which shows up nicely in my
Debian partition but which a locate offers no sign of in either pkgsrc
or wip, ie.:

{6} locate libasound
/mnt/debian/usr/lib/libasound.so.2
/mnt/debian/usr/lib/libasound.so.2.0.0

On the Debian side:
$ apt-cache show libasound2
Description: ALSA library
 This package contains the ALSA library and its standard
 plugins.

I seem to recall that one of the major improvements in recent versions
of Skype is better ALSA support.

I don't suppose libasound is hidden in some already existing pkgsrc
library? Or I could sym link to the binary in the Debian partition? That
would be too easy, I am guessing..... (I tried the sym link idea in a
couple of places [/usr/lib and /usr/pkg/lib] but it didn't work.)

Clayton