Re: xemacs build failure (missing symbol hpplay)

[David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost>]

On 18 January 2017 at 09:40, Riccardo Mottola
<riccardo.mottola%libero.it@localhost> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> David Brownlee wrote:
>>
>> Looks like init_hpplay is a function provided xemacs to play .au sound
>> files on hp9000s700 (Or more strictly I suspect to play them in HP/UX
>> on hp9000s700:)
>>
>> Its under "#if defined (HAVE_NATIVE_SOUND) && defined (hp9000s800)"
>>
>> I suspect you may just be able to wrap the references to
>> vars_of_hpplay and init_hpplay with && defined(HPUX). I could take a
>> look this end but I gave away my hp box to another developer a while
>> back, so I wouldn't be able to test:)
>
>
> I am not that expert in hacking and generating packages in pkgsrc stuff, but
> I get your point.
> I actually am compiling on a 715 box, so most probably the issue is
> HAVE_NATIVE_SOUND. Probably either NetBSD has a different mechanism or it
> doesn't have it at all.
> If you can take a look, I can test and maybe we can improve things together.
> Perhaps the patch is then worth going upstream.
> I did choose xemacs over emacs mostly because the use of motif is much
> lighter on exported displays than gtk used by emacs.

Could you try http://sync.absd.org/xemacs.tgz

Extract it in place of pkgsrc/editors/xemacs and see if it builds :)

David